Editors' Choice
‘In Deep Aeolic Infinitude’: Catching Wind of the Harvard Whistler’s Society
“For too long, whistling has been sort of a maligned art form, underappreciated in comparison to other forms of music-making,” Tyler Heaton says. “We figured it was high time to put our foot in the door.”
Lovestruck in Cambridge: A Romance Bookstore Comes to Harvard Square
Rachel Kanter is taking her relationship with romance to the next level – opening Lovestruck Books, a bookstore in Harvard Square specializing in romance novels.
Parsing the Past of Our Present in History 10
The new gateway course, which aims to expose students to different ways of doing, practicing, and talking about history, was advertised on Canvas under the headline: “Not your high school history class!”
The Eleventh Habit of Highly Successful Harvard Students
The world falls away, and it’s just me and Panopto, reaching full human potential as one.
An Annenberg Stakeout
A month into school, are people in Annenberg still sharing meals with strangers? An FM freshman spends a day staking out the dining hall to find out.
Acceleration
I am afraid to carry the weight of other bodies, of other lives, with unflinching speed.
Stripping on Sundays
At the beginning of my sophomore year, I was on the phone with my grandmother when she asked me if I’d gotten a term-time job. “Yes,” I answered her. “I’m stripping at CRG.”
I Went to a Fish Funeral.
“Fish Funeral Friday,” read the flier, which was black. Finally, I thought. A community event that’s up my dimly-lit alley.
Want to Become a Lorax? A New Course Rethinks Environmental Rights
In their new course, “The Rights of Nature,” visiting Law School professor James Salzman and American History and Harvard Law School professor Jill Lepore investigate a burgeoning American legal movement known as the Rights of Nature. The movement argues that granting legal personhood to wildlife and natural features could help stave off environmental destruction.
The Academic Policing of Academics on Policing
In 2022, professors Christopher Lewis and Adaner Usmani argued that to reduce violent crime, the U.S. needs to drastically shorten its prison sentences — and increase its police force by half a million officers. Their ideas soon become a flashpoint of online discourse.
Zoë Hitzig is Generative and Intelligent. Is She Artificial?
Much like a large language model, the Zoë Hitzig available by Google search is so prolifically published that she seems capable of writing something about anything — from poetry to economics to philosophy — almost instantaneously.
Dear Junior Year
My grief didn’t shrink — I don’t know that it ever will — but my heart expanded.