Alexander Heffner and Governor Maura Healey

Breaking Bread

Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.

by Jack R. Trapanick

Moveable Feast

Commencement venues through the ages

by Primus IV

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Imposter syndrome, AI and authoritarianism, shopping week

Admissions Agenda

Thinking about how Harvard conducts admissions, as the Supreme Court prepares to weigh in

by John S. Rosenberg

The Need for Communal Healing

Coming to terms with personal and pandemic grief

by Rebecca E. J. Cadenhead

A Multiverse of Might-Have-Beens

A 2021 graduate returns to campus for a belated Commencement that feels more like a reunion.

by Meena Venkataramanan

Yesterday’s News

Headlines from Harvard’s history

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“Shopping week,” workplace culture, solace, and other reader views

Lorna Myrtle Hodgkinson

Brief life of a dauntless educator: 1887-1951

by David Haig

What We Keep

President Bacow on maintaining University values while adopting the best lessons learned during the pandemic 

by Lawrence Bacow

On Commencements

Emerson’s oratory backstory, somber reunion notes, and happier days

by Primus VI