Featured series 
Excerpts
Works by Harvard-affiliated authors
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HealthTotal keto or veganism? Daniel Lieberman considers how humans evolved to eat.
Excerpt from evolutionary biologist’s new book ‘Fed Up’
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Nation & WorldWhy we need to break the grip of ‘oldigarchy’
Legal historian’s new book argues older Americans control power, wealth — and lack sense of urgency to fix nation’s most pressing problems
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Nation & WorldWhen ‘base’ of Republican Party shifted
In new memoir, Lamar Alexander says it used to be just elected officials, voters. Then came rise of more extreme activist groups, worsening polarization.
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Nation & WorldConstitution was made to be amended. So what’s stopping us?
Jill Lepore argues in her new Pulitzer-winning history that it desperately needs update, traces emergence of roadblocks
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Nation & WorldSCOTUS might surprise you
Sarah Isgur argues growing distrust of justices says more about our tribalism than any change in way judiciary works
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Arts & Culture‘She took those kids and left before he got home from work.’
Jayne Anne Phillips recalls childhood visits to beauty shop in rural West Virginia hometown in new memoir
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Toppling the myth of meritocracy
The myth of meritocracy is not merely self-deluding, Michael Sandel argues in his new book, but it also fuels our divisiveness.
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Nathan Pusey’s battle with Joseph McCarthy
An excerpt from the new book “Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy” by Larry Tye.
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A room of one’s own
Excerpt from “The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s” by Maggie Doherty.
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Girl with the golden arm
In this excerpt from Gish Jen’s satiric new novel, a star pitcher struggles against the police state in a riven, dystopian America.
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How America went astray
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn return to Kristof’s rural Oregon hometown to find the roots of white working-class anger
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Flight from reason
In his new book, “How America Lost Its Mind: The Assault on Reason That’s Crippling Our Democracy,” Thomas Patterson looks at the rejection of logic and reason in American political life and how it threatens Democracy.
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One L, only harder
The following is excerpted from Haben Girma’s memoir “Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law.”
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Like a fish out of a war zone
An excerpt from “The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir” by Samantha Power.
