FM Front Feature
Why Are There Yiddish Napkins in Harvard’s Archives?
The Judaica Collection is in a league of its own, not just in its organizational structure, but in its scope and scale.
To Metro, With Love
Maybe that’s why I felt such a connection with the Wilson Report. It was a reminder that perhaps my work wasn’t fleeting. My mind traced back to the dusty pages covered with stories of real issues that mattered to real people and their lives in Cambridge.
The Business of Getting In
As the college application process gets increasingly competitive, private consultants promise their clients an edge against their peers. Some are willing to pay thousands in hopes of guaranteeing success, but the actual impact of the services remains unclear.
What Was Lost in the SEAS Layoffs
The news of the layoffs came in a scheduled message from the dean. Around 7:40 or 8 a.m., Yoon received another email from his manager requesting a meeting — he took it as another bad sign. He’d been setting up equipment for his course when he had to step away for the Zoom call.
Where Does Harvard’s Orientation for Activists Fit In Now?
With the Trump administration cracking down on diversity initiatives and administrators showing less tolerance for campus activism, it is unclear whether the program — as decades of students knew it — has a place in Harvard College’s future.
Harvard’s Funds Are Back. Can Its Scientists Trust the Government Again?
With funding at a constant risk of revocation, Harvard is not out of the clear — and researchers are still fighting for their futures.
The Unraveling of the New England Primate Research Center
For 50 years, the New England Primate Research Center pioneered research in HIV, Parkinson’s, and addiction. But as a series of animal misconduct allegations eroded the center’s legacy, Harvard, the Medical School, and the NEPRC itself struggled to control a slow collapse.
Hacking HUDS with Claire Saffitz
We can’t take full credit for the idea of asking Saffitz to zhuzh up some everyday fare.
Sanjna: Office Hours with The Crimson
Sanjna N. Rajagopalan ’26 — known professionally as Sanjna — kicks off the first installment of The Crimson’s newly launched concert series, Office Hours. Sanjna accompanies her smooth vocals with graceful piano through four original songs and a cover of “Hard Place” by H.E.R.
Harvard’s Taylor Swift Scholar on “The Life of a Showgirl”
For Harvard English professor Stephanie Burt, “The Life of a Showgirl” is not, as it was for me, a confusing, Travis Kelce-themed departure from the artist I’d known and loved most of my life. Rather, Burt says, it’s a retrospective.
Love and the Law: A Look at Polyamorous Camberville
In 2020, 11 Somerville city councilors drafted an ordinance for domestic partnerships, previously nonexistent in the municipal code. As they were finalizing the legislation that would define domestic partnerships between two people, city councilor J.T. Scott asked a modest but far-reaching question: why only two?
The BerryLine Line Lines the Street and It’s Berry, Berry Long.
The sheer length of the line has caused many to scratch their heads and wonder: what changed?
The Theory, Born at Harvard, That Could Remake Right-Wing Jurisprudence
Over the past five years, common good constitutionalism has taken tenuous root in elite legal academia. It’s now beginning to find its way into courtrooms. But scholars remain divided on its potential to reshape the legal landscape — and whose “common good” it seeks to advance.
Scientists and the Face of God
I believed in science, but I also believed in agency. To think of myself as a machine driven by chemical reactions beyond my control felt outrageous. I knew myself to be more than just a body. I wanted to believe that I was also a mind.
Fifteen Questions: Alfredo Gutierrez Ortiz Mena on Constitutional Backsliding, Counter-Majoritarian Courts, and Tenoch
The former justice of the Mexican Supreme Court sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss his return to Harvard Law School, recent changes in the Mexican judicial system, and his favorite historical court opinions.
