Opinion

The Early Curveball

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Maybe your opportunity is now — to try something new, to pick up some skills, to pause and think, to be part of this historical moment (perhaps the biggest of our generation).

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Health Disparities Close to Home

Monica Bharel

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We need to continue to come together as one medical, public health, and scientific community, not only to respond to the moment – but to pay attention to what we are learning and be ready for what comes next.

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We Can Go Farther Together

Ashish K. Jha

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As the graduating Class of 2020 leaves Harvard, they enter a world where they can make a different choice. They can choose to work together, to embrace knowledge from, and create knowledge with partners from around the world.

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For the Public Interest

Maura T. Healey

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You’ve worked hard, you’ve earned it, and you should celebrate as much as you can in this socially distanced moment. But remember, it’s not the degree that’s special — it’s the opportunity to make the most of it.

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Bacow: Title IX Changes Require a Trip to Washington

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Harvard must use its institutional heft against these changes, which threaten the safety of many students at Harvard as well as on other campuses. This is not a fringe issue.

Plain Speaking for What Comes Next

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We hope the administration works to move beyond vague emails and a two-question survey whose value as a genuine inquiry into student opinion seems limited.

What Harvard Sold Jeffrey Epstein

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The Epstein report reveals that Harvard served as a powerful platform for a sex offender to pay for a reputation retouch.

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A Letter From Harvard’s Faculty Deans to the Class of 2020

Anne Harrington

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As the semester now winds down, we wish for so much for all of you: good health and safety, first and foremost, but also meaningful work, moments of joy and fun, and friendships that nurture and enlarge you.

Sounding like a Stranger

Marissa J. Joseph

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I try to rebirth and redefine our history within the contexts of my books and lectures and to find space within my people’s tradition for a remixed language that is both broken and Harvardesque.

The First Generation

Kevin Frazier

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We are the first to have every stage of our life upended by the powerful and modern mix of climate change, digitization, and globalization — let’s call this the connected world.