Lydialyle Gibson

Free Speech on Campus

Amid complaints of antisemitism at Harvard, a discussion on the limits of political speech

Greg Stone, An Emerging Novelist at 70

Late-life inspiration leads to pulpy noir novel

Living the Science Fiction Fantasy

Novelist Catherine Asaro’s space operas

The Philosopher of the Real World

Susanna Siegel moves beyond dialectical debates.

Tobacco Smoke and Tuberculosis

Harvard researchers illuminate a longstanding epidemiological connection. 

Painful Questions from Indigenous Leaders

A conference on Harvard’s history of injustice against Native Americans 

What Can Be Done About Gun Violence?

ATF director Steven Dettelbach discusses background checks, assault weapon bans, and an “overwhelming problem.” 

Five Harvardians win MacArthur Fellowships

Historian Imani Perry wins for her scholarship on black Americans’ resistance to racism

Performing for the President

A musical and poetic “prelude” to Claudine Gay’s installation festivities

The Uses of Discomfort

The first in a series of public conversations about Harvard and the legacy of slavery

Black Students Speak

Jarvis Givens on two centuries of African American education 

The Return of History

Ukrainian scholar Serhii Plokhy on the war in his home country