06.26.25: The June Issue
Civility and Privilege
Central to any university’s mission is debate, discourse across disciplines, and exchange across backgrounds. Yet, according to University president Alan Garber ’76, these conversations are faltering. In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Garber reflected on how life at the University has changed since his time as an undergraduate. “Students today find it […]
Love Island Reconsidered
Somewhere in a chemistry lab in Cambridge, a rising sophomore pauses her chemistry experiment to watch an intense recoupling. Across the world in New Zealand, an Econ concentrator spits out his morning coffee because Belle-A was sent home from the Villa. And in suburban Ohio, I trade an hour of nightly reading for the thrill […]
Thoughts from New Quincy: In Search of Lost Time
There’s a place I keep returning to—not physically, but in memory. My freshman dorm room. It had a small bed crammed under a wall of movie posters I don’t relate to anymore. A portable A/C unit the school kept emailing me to remove. The carpet was that dorm-issue kind—brown and blue, the color of nothing […]
Stranger in My City
On my first day back from Harvard, I had lunch with my high school friend Talia. We picked up takeout sushi from a popular market near our old school and strolled down Madison Avenue, chatting and window shopping. We had done the exact same routine on one of the last days before leaving for college—same […]
A Broad, No Longer Abroad: Between the Seine and the Subway
The coffee shop where I’m writing this isn’t as charming as my favorite cafés in Paris, like Café Vavin or Candle Kids Coffee, but it’s a holdover from my abroad days. When deciding where to work today, I debated between a West Village coffee shop and the Harvard Club of New York. As my roommate […]
Overheard on Safari
Animals may not be able to speak with humans, but they are certainly not silent. If you spend enough time watching them, you might begin to wonder what is going through their heads. This photo series has no claim for accuracy—but rather, offers a guess at the inner monologues and wild thoughts of the animals […]
The Summer of the Audiobook
Just hours after my summer began, the lifestyle change of “having free time” came as a bit of a shock. So, when someone I know who has very good ideas (my mother) suggested that I “read more this summer” and asked whether I had a book for the plane and subsequent weekend trip, I replied […]