Commentary

Alexander Heffner and Governor Maura Healey

Alumni Profiles |

Breaking Bread

Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.

by Jack R. Trapanick

A drawing showing a large crossbar being hauled into place between two tall smokestacks to make a giant "H" for "Harvard"

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2021

Yesterday's News

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Formal portrait of the Board of Editors for volume 70 of the “Harvard Law Review” (1956-1957), photographed on the steps of Austin Hall. The author, only the third woman admitted to Review membership, stands in the fourth row, at upper left.

Features | January-February 2021

The Education of a Harvard Lawyer

An alumna looks back.

by Nancy Boxley Tepper

Letters | January-February 2021

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The conservative, legacies, the Electoral College

Photograph of Rob Gogan, retired recycling director and acute observer of nature on campus

The College Pump | January-February 2021

Crimson’s Mr. Green

The campus’s Mr. Green, accessing acronyms, mathematician at work, and a distracted astronomer

by Primus VI

Photograph of Harvard president Lawrence S. Bacow

Letters | January-February 2021

Making Space

As SEAS moves to Allston, President Bacow highlights the University’s newest innovation hub.

by Lawrence Bacow

An historic photograph from Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library archives shows the 1936 exhibition on women scientists—in this case, folders of their published scholarship.

Treasure | January-February 2021

Conservative Curation

“Women in Science” on display

by Alona Bach

Painting of three pairs of worn, heavy shoes by Vincent van Gogh

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2021

A Common Underground

Redrawing community at Harvard

by Che Applewhaite

An illustration by James Steinberg shows a heavenly hand extending down to the U.S. Capitol and attempting to influence members of Congress

Features | January-February 2021

The American Exception

How faith shapes economic and social policy

Drawing of a college student seated at her desk in her bedroom at home, looking at images of friends on her computer screen. On the desk are a book and a bowl of salad, reflecting recommendations made by friends previously.

John Harvard's Journal | November-December 2020

University Friendships—and Beyond

The Undergraduate considers friendships on and away from campus.

by Meena Venkataramanan

Letters | November-December 2020

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Stimulus funds, meritocracy, enlarging history, and more