How a single image of the Battery Park City landfill captures New York at an inflection point in its history.
Justin Beal | Sep 9, 2022
Media theorist Elizabeth Losh explains how politicians' digital strategies appeal to the same fantasies of digital connection, access, and participation peddled by Silicon Valley.
The Editors | Sep 6, 2022
“’Apocalypse Now’ is an exceptional film. It is also an average American film of the post-Vietnam era.”
Serge Daney | Sep 1, 2022
Historian Nancy Campbell recounts the prehistory of naloxone, and the case that changed how courts view addiction.
Nancy Campbell | Aug 29, 2022
Notes on Laurent Joubert’s “Treatise on Laughter.”
Anca Parvulescu | Aug 25, 2022
Modern novels, films, and television shows are a sobering reflection of society’s vastly different expectations for moms and dads.
Andrew Bomback | Aug 22, 2022
Cognitive psychologist Stefan Van der Stigchel unpacks the myths and facts about mind-wandering.
Stefan Van der Stigchel | Aug 19, 2022
In this episode of the Harvard Data Science Review podcast, we dive into the data on refugees and immigration.
The Editors of HDSR | Aug 16, 2022
Not content with writing the music of his time, Richard Wagner proposed that his job as a composer was to write the music of the future.
David Huron | Aug 12, 2022
When it comes to the modern history of Islamic art, the story of Musil's "discovery" of Qusayr ‘Amra epitomizes the difference between objects as they exist and knowledge about them.
Shahzad Bashir | Aug 9, 2022
Iofan’s career is a precise reflection of all the compromises that architects must make with power.
Deyan Sudjic | Aug 4, 2022
What are these jobs and why are they so essential to achieving urban sustainability goals?
William Shutkin & Andy Bush | Aug 1, 2022