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Articles by Ryan Carollo
At Home with Harvard: Nature Walks
This is the fifth installment in Harvard Magazine’s new series, “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about Harvard's Arnold Arboretum and spring blossoming, famous and not-so-famous Harvardians in the movies, Harvard’s literary scene, and the resources of Harvard’s many museums. Isolation doesn't mean we have to stop moving.
At Home with Harvard: Night at the Museum
This is the fourth installment in Harvard Magazine’s new series, “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, and listen to while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about Harvard's Arnold Arboretum and spring blossoming, famous and not-so-famous Harvardians in the movies, and Harvard’s literary scene.
At Home with Harvard: The Literary Life
This is the third installment in Harvard Magazine’s new series, “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, and listen to while social distancing. Read the first two pieces, featuring stories about Harvard's Arnold Arboretum and Harvardians in film. From alumni novelists, poets, and critics, to Harvard literary scholars and archivists, literature is one of Harvard Magazine's most-covered subjects.
At Home with Harvard: Harvard in the Movies
This is the second installment in Harvard Magazine’s new series, “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, and listen to while social distancing. Read the first piece, featuring stories about Harvard's Arnold Arboretum, here. Harvard may not be known as a school for aspiring artists, but it has produced some of the most interesting creators—filmmakers, film writers, film critics—shaping cinema, past and present.
At Home with Harvard: Spring Blooms
At a time when social distancing has changed everyone’s life, all of us working remotely from Harvard Magazine find it important to get outside for exercise and to clear our heads. Especially now, when the seasons are beginning to turn in eastern Massachusetts, I think of the University’s Arnold Arboretum. Two summers ago, I wrote about an exhibition of photographs of the seasonal parade there, taken by Jim Harrison, the magazine’s long-time contributing photographer.
David Cutler: Can the U.S. Healthcare System Be Fixed?
No country in the world spends more on health care than the United States, or has less to show for it when compared to other wealthy nations. The U.S. spends nearly 50 percent more per capita than Switzerland, the second biggest spender among wealthy nations, but consistently ranks near the bottom on measures of population wellness and life expectancy. Is there a better system, and if so, what should it look like? What role does wasteful spending play in this equation?
African and African-American Studies Celebrates 50 years
Last Saturday evening, toward the end of a two-day symposium commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the African and African-American studies department (AAAS)—an event filled with stories and music, memories of struggle and achievement, and with searching discussions about the future of the field—Cornel West put into words an uneasiness that had been tugging at the celebrations all weekend long.
Harvard and the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health Team to Fight SARS-CoV
Ever since the earliest reports of a pneumonia-like illness spreading within Hubei province in China, the resemblance to the SARS outbreak of 2002-2003 has been uncanny: probable origins in the wild-animal markets of China; an illness that in some people resembles the common cold or a flu, but in others leads to pneumonia-like symptoms that can cause respiratory failure; community transmission that often occurs undetected; super-spreader events; and reported vertical transmission in...
Ghost Stories for the Apocalypse
On the balmy waves above a coral reef we once called Harvard Yard, a twenty-seventh-century Thoreau seeks Waldenesque contemplation. On a doomed planet, a father and daughter race to decipher an extraterrestrial society’s dying words. In Tang dynasty China, an apprentice thief must decide how to use her arcane talent for stealing lives.
March-April 2020
Click on arrow at right to view full image Hu believes a plant-based diet can help feed a growing population in a healthy, sustainable way. Photograph by Jim Harrison Frank Hu confronts the triple threats of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change. Pippa Norris Photograph by Stu Rosner Harvard political scientist Pippa Norris chronicles the rise of populist authoritarians in Western democracies.
Divestment Slate Achieves Place on Overseer Ballot
The Harvard Forward (HF)-backed slate of petition candidates for Overseer has been certified for the ballot, following a tally by the Office of the Governing Boards (OGB). To qualify, the five petitioners each had to submit 2,936 valid nominating signatures; on February 1, the deadline, the organization announced that it had delivered more than 4,500 names per candidate to the OGB, combining online-submissions and those on paper forms.
Coming Soon: Ask a Harvard Professor, Season Two
News more News Melinda Gates Photograph courtesy of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The philanthropist will highlight Radcliffe Day during Harvard’s Commencement week. 2.26.20 Tracy P. Palandjian ’93, M.B.A. ’97, chair of the Harvard Alumni Association Committee to Nominate Overseers and Elected Directors, and Philip Lovejoy, HAA executive director Photographs: Courtesy of Tracy P.
Boston in Motion
Imagine running the Boston Marathon in 1635, a few years after the city was founded. Your route would have traveled through forests filled with moose, wolves, and beavers, ending in a swim through the swampy waters to the west of the Boston Neck—then a rail-thin strip of land connecting the city to what is now Roxbury and Dorchester. The city’s boundaries were announced by gallows and a wall, marking a dramatic shift from native North America to an outpost of the expanding British empire.
The Emily Dickinson Museum
In a small New England town, sitting at a plain wooden table, 17 3/8ths inches square, Emily Dickinson created nearly 1,800 poems that continue to entrance and mystify readers across the globe. That table will again be on display at Harvard’s Houghton Library, known for its Dickinson collection, when building renovations are completed this fall.
Rare books at risk
W hen a colleague chanced upon a stray medieval manuscript page in the Harvard Theatre Collection in 2018, then-Houghton Library curator William P. Stoneman knew whom to call: Peter Kidd, a medieval-art expert. Kidd’s detective work identified the page as a leaf from a fifteenth-century illuminated book crafted for the French diocese of Rennes, a volume that had been thought lost. Book-breaking is not limited to eBay.
Recent books with Harvard connections
Bach’s Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work, by Christoph Wolff, Adams University Professor emeritus (W.W. Norton, $40). The preeminent Bach scholar (and biographer) here places the composer’s music in context by diving deep into selected works, organized not by period or genre, but by their “transformative musical ideas” for Bach himself. Fighting Words, by Nancy F. Cott, Trumbull research professor of American history (Basic Books, $32).
Leadership without good judgment undermines government legitimacy
What makes a government legitimate? Adams professor of political leadership and democratic values Arthur I. Applbaum believes that legitimacy entails “genuinely having the moral right to rule.” By this right, he explains, governments impose laws and their consequences on citizens and derive immunity from foreign intervention. The key question is how this right comes about.
Grass-roots organizing is focus of new book
Among the many ways U.S. politics has been transformed in the past decade, the rise of nationwide citizens’ activist groups devoted to resisting a president—the Tea Party on the right, and Indivisible on the left—has been especially remarkable. These groups reflect both the renewed grass-roots energy animating civic-minded Americans, and the severe polarization that now frames seemingly every dimension of national politics.
Lindsay Reed, Harvard women’s ice-hockey goalie
On New Year’s Eve, the Harvard women’s hockey team suited up for a long-anticipated rematch. Last February, in the first round of the 2019 Beanpot Tournament, the Crimson had stunned Boston College, ranked seventh in the nation, with a 4-1 victory. The Eagles scored 45 seconds into the game, and then never again. That was partly the work of Harvard’s rookie goalie, a lanky then-freshman named Lindsay Reed, who stopped 52 shots that night.
Harvard's Sendhil Mullainathan on behavior and poverty
Toward the end of World War II, while thousands of Europeans were dying of hunger, 36 men at the University of Minnesota volunteered for a study that would send them to the brink of starvation. Allied troops advancing into German-occupied territories with supplies and food were encountering droves of skeletal people they had no idea how to safely renourish, and researchers at the university had designed a study they hoped might reveal the best methods of doing so.
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