Commentary
Breaking Bread
Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.
by Jack R. Trapanick
Memorable Mentors
Richard Lewontin, Richard Zeckhauser, diplomatic security, diverse inclusion, and admissions agita lampooned
by Primus VI
The Paintings Behind the Books in the Harvard Botanical Museum
The discovery of Rosa M. Towne’s paintings in the Harvard Botanical Museum
by Edward Tabor
Cambridge 02138
Liberal arts, repatriation, sea level, palindromes
Seeing Further
Harvard’s investment in quantum science
by Lawrence Bacow
Yesterday’s News
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Endowment Enigmas
Risky entanglements in the political arena—and the potential for major new academic investments
Speaking Pheromone
How science is done, in the lab of E.O. Wilson
by Richard Rhodes
Campus, Interrupted
The Undergraduate returns to student life, altered by the pandemic and a year spent apart.
by Rebecca E. J. Cadenhead , Swathi Kella
Has Harvard “Divested”?
Interpreting President Bacow’s recent statement on climate change
by John S. Rosenberg
Afghanistan Will Be What It Always Was
But will we be better? A veteran’s reflections
by Kit Parker