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Dear President Faust, We the undersigned faculty members of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Linguistics, and the Committee on Degrees in the study of Women, Gender and...

Harvard should remain (or return to be) a place where unhindered passage is granted to those who seek knowledge, truth, and social justice. Harvard news office writer Ken Gewertz died a few months ago, in September. He did not see his university lock and...

A twentieth century poet once said: "You see the old way wasn't working / so it's on us to do what we gotta do / to survive." A similar tack, which reevaluates the humanities' arguments for their very existence, seems necessary in today's university. The...

In one of the best-known elegies of the Romanian language, Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889) expresses what many world travelers have felt at some point in their wanderings: “Mai am un singur dor: / În liniştea serii / Să mă lăsaţi să mor / La marginea mării” [...