Tag: Timothy McCarthy

  • Nation & World

    Harvard experts call ruling on LGBT rights a landmark

    Harvard faculty members in law and gender issues declared Monday’s Supreme Court ruling protecting gay and transgender workers a landmark for LGBT rights.

    5 minutes
    Rainbow flag in D.C.
  • Nation & World

    How to curb the madness

    After Orlando, Harvard experts offer ways to reduce what seems unstoppable: mass violence.

    11 minutes
  • Nation & World

    In anti-lynching plays, a coiled power

    Magdalene “Maggie” Zier turned her senior thesis about anti-lynching plays into a live performance at Harvard Law School.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Cooperation is key to Dudley Co-op

    Harvard students opt for a different House experience when they move into the Dudley Co-op.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    David Bowie and me

    Harvard faculty members reflect on the artistic and cultural legacies of trailblazing musician David Bowie, who died this week at age 69.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘One for the ages’

    The landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding gay marriage nationally is “one for the ages,” a Harvard legal analyst said, a judgment echoed by others.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Tracking a cultural shift

    Harvard experts examine high court rulings, as well as the political, cultural, and social factors that have ushered in a wave of support for marriage equality.

    10 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard Thinks Big

    Ten great ideas from 10 great professors in 10 minutes or less. Harvard Thinks Big, a student-organized discussion that paired leading lecturers with eager listeners, attracted these great minds to help explore and inspire new ways of thinking, in the first session of what organizers hope will become an annual experience.

    5 minutes