Features
Mechanical Intelligence and Counterfeit Humanity
Reflections on six decades of relations with computers
by Harry R. Lewis
Controlling the Global Thermostat
Coming to terms with climate change’s relentless, long-term fallout
by Jonathan Shaw
Active Grandparenting, Costly Repair
A biological anthropologist explains why and how exercise works to combat senescence.
by Daniel E. Lieberman
Near and Distant Objectives
Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman’s constitutionalism is a branch of the humanities.
by Lincoln Caplan
Claudia Jones
Brief life of an intersectional activist: 1915-1964
by Clarissa Atkinson
A Science Is Born
The “yeasty” times” when computer research grew at Harvard
by Harry R. Lewis
“From Neither Here Nor There”
Sociologist Roberto Gonzales on the predicament of undocumented young people
by Lydialyle Gibson
Callimachus
Brief life of a multifaceted poet: c. 310 B.C.E. - c. 240 B.C.E.
by Stephanie Burt , Mark Payne
The Indispensable Power
On restoring American leadership through diplomacy
by Nicholas Burns
One Small Step for Music
A professor’s interstellar reach
by Jacob Sweet
From Lewis and Clark to Michael Brown
Walter Johnson’s radical history of St. Louis
by Marina N. Bolotnikova