Inquiry
The Stories We Tell About Food
One hopes that as we reach adulthood, these just-so stories about food become fuzzy — more nuances, spectra, and uncertainty. The world is complicated.
To Substack Or Not to Substack
What brings all of these people to this platform for writing? Are we witnessing the emergence of a new public forum? A newly accessible location for language? What does the popularity of Substack as a less established, institutional space for writing, even at so established an institution as Harvard, mean?
The Great Leveling
Advanced AI models pose unprecedented challenges to Harvard’s meritocracy. What comes next?
The Meme-ification of News
Humor as a coping mechanism is nothing new, but only now has this copium infiltrated our media ecosystem to such a radical extent.