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editor’s letter
Radhika Jones on Kate Middleton, King Charles, and the Royal Family’s Hard Year
VF’s editor in chief reflects on the Windsors’ challenges, and shares her insights on that Taylor Swift class at Harvard.
By Radhika Jones
Levin Report
Hedge Fund Billionaire Who Recently Donated $300 Million to Harvard Says It’s Now Full of “Whiny Snowflakes,” and His Checkbook Is Closed
Ken Griffin is “not interested in supporting the institution” at this time.
By Bess Levin
Things That Make You Go Hmmm
Bill Ackman Claims Martin Luther King Jr. Would Have Been Against Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion—And Yes, He Was Serious
“I think Dr. King would be very opposed to this sort of ideology.”
By Bess Levin
Academia
Wife of Billionaire Who Pushed for Harvard President’s Ouster Apologizes for Plagiarism in Dissertation
Neri Oxman wrote on X, “I regret and apologize for these errors.”
By Bess Levin
Academia
Harvard President Claudine Gay Resigns—Seemingly Over Plagiarism, Not Jewish Genocide Hearing
The university board had previously backed her following a disastrous hearing on Capitol Hill.
By Bess Levin
FLACK FILES
“Kayleigh Is at War.” How Donald Trump’s Fifth * (and Final?) Spox Went From Florida Farmland to Prime-Time Fibber
However long Kayleigh McEnany has left as the official MAGAphone of the Trump White House, she’s left her mark.
By Jessica Pressler
Coronavirus
COVID-19 Conspiracies Are Turobocharged Through Conservative Media
Fox News hosts, right-wing radio hosts, and social media users have contributed to an “infodemic” plaguing society alongside the spread of the coronavirus.
By Caleb Ecarma
Style
“Am I Really a Monster?” The Six-Fry Harvard Professor Speaks
Harvard’s Dr. Eric Rimm has seen all your tweets, and he’s not backing down.
By Hilary Weaver
In Conversation
Memoirist Casey Gerald Takes Aim at the American Dream
In his debut, There Will Be No Miracles Here, the onetime TED speaker shares the lessons from a life on both sides of the country’s racial and class divides.
By Erin Vanderhoof
The Kush
Natalie Portman Calls Her Former Friend Jared Kushner “a Super-Villain”
The unlikely duo were “friendly” while students at Harvard.
By Erika Harwood
From the Magazine
Yara Shahidi on Being a Role Model, Attending Harvard, and Continuing Her Activism
The Grown-ish star is just getting started as she finds a way to balance her first year of college on screen and off.
By Krista Smith
Socialites
Malia Obama’s Rumored Boyfriend Has Deleted His Social-Media Presence
First Meghan Markle, now Rory Farquharson.
By Kenzie Bryant
He Went to Harvard
Has Jared Kushner Ever Filled Out a Form He Hasn’t Messed Up?
Probably not?
By Kenzie Bryant
class of 2021
Malia Obama Has Already Mastered the Art of “No Comment”
Don’t look for her quote in the Harvard Crimson any time soon.
By Hilary Weaver
Star Crossed Lovers
Jennifer Lawrence’s Boyfriend, Darren Aronofsky, Doesn’t Understand Her Housewives Obsession
They make it work somehow!
By Kenzie Bryant
Inside The Hive
Exclusive: The Winklevoss Twins Are So Over Facebook
In the latest episode of Inside the Hive, the famous twins explain the surreality of seeing themselves depicted by screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, and their initial ambitions for The Facebook. They also show a remarkable sangfroid about how the whole mess with Zuck went down, and explain how they think they can beat it all with Gemini, their cyptocurrency exchange.
By Nick Bilton
Go Crimson
Yara Shahidi Will Join Malia Obama at Harvard in 2018
She chose the Ivy League after being accepted to all four schools to which she applied.
By Hilary Weaver
Fraught Beginnings
How Harvard Business School Helped Turn Steve Bannon into a Monster
It takes a graduate degree from the nation’s top business school to deconstruct the administrative state.
By Duff McDonald
Freshman-In-Chief
Malia Obama Chooses Harvard for Undergrad, but Only After a Gap Year
She‘s a driven, intelligent and self-possessed young woman — but being the president’s daughter sure can’t hurt.
By Charles Bramesco
Higher Education
Portraits of Black Harvard Law School Professors Defaced After Protest Against Racism
University police are investigating what may be a hate crime.
By Tina Nguyen