Features


Mechanical Intelligence and Counterfeit Humanity

Reflections on six decades of relations with computers

by Harry R. Lewis

The Return of History

Ukrainian scholar Serhii Plokhy on the war in his home country

by Lydialyle Gibson

Getting Close, in Selma

Acting at a moment of conscience

by Drew Gilpin Faust

Arthur Augustus Johnson

Brief life of a Black baseball impresario: 1890-1951

by Kasey Uhlenhuth , Harry R. Lewis

Short and Sweet

Larry Bacow’s Harvard presidency, beyond the pandemic

by John S. Rosenberg

“This Beautiful Machine”

Paola Arlotta’s organoids provide a window into the human brain.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Sound as Ever

Gram Parsons and Harvard’s hand in country rock

by Nancy Walecki

Ursula B. Marvin

Brief life of a pioneering planetary geologist: 1921-2018

by David A. Kring

Building a Better World

MASS Design’s healing architecture

by Mark Travis

Among the Brokenhearted

The ministry of Matthew Ichihashi Potts

by Nancy Walecki

Archibald Henry Grimke

Brief life of a Black Harvard Law School graduate: 1849-1930

by Kerri K. Greenidge