CriminalizingCriminalizing RaceRace •• CommencementCommencement •• PoisoningPoisoning thethe OceansOceans JULY-AUGUST 2018 • $4.95 Drew Gilpin Faust Leading Harvard in challenging times Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 MANAGING THE FUTURE OF WORK TOMORROW’S WORKFORCE IS TODAY’S CHALLENGE Advancements in technology, shifting markets, and the gig economy are changing the very nature of work. With this challenge in mind, Harvard Business School Executive Education is launching a new program, Managing the Future of Work. Based on the latest research into the forces reshaping workforce demographics, this program is designed to help employers remain competitive by thinking strategically about today’s evolving business landscape. Managing the Future of Work 21–24 OCT 2018 Learn more www.exed.hbs.edu Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 180706_HBS_ExecEd.indd 1 5/17/18 9:27 AM JULY-AUGUST 2018, VOLUME 120, NUMBER 6 FEATURES 39 The “Global Chemical Experiment” | by Courtney Humphries Elsie Sunderland maps ocean pollutants—and their effects on human health 44 Vita: Moorfield Storey | by Geoffrey D. Austrian Brief life of a patrician reformer: 1845-1929 p. 14 46 Faust in Focus | by John S. Rosenberg A Harvard presidency during challenging times 57 Writing Crime into Race | by Lydialyle Gibson Khalil Muhammad plumbs the history of Americans’ racialized ideas about crime JOHN HARVARD’S JOURNAL 14 The picture-perfect 367th Commencement celebrated Harvard’s twenty-eighth president, amid politically uncertain times. Plus a voice coach, the Law School’s immigration clinic, seasonal views of the Arboretum, biodiversity at Walden Pond, Corporation changes, S. Allen Counter portrayed, new deans and other news, Mass Hall makeover, and reflections on living in a tourist mecca p. 71 p. 84 DEPARTMENTS 2 Cambridge 02138 | Letters from our readers—and getting General Education right 2 8A Harvard | Summer events, Kevin Beasley at the ICA, Cape Cod’s Heritage Museums & Gardens, a day trip to MASS MoCA in the Berkshires, Methuen pipe organ, and more 9 Right Now | Differentiating emotional states, the HouseZero experiment, small-particle air pollutants 62 Montage | A rocker still raging, privacy before Facebook, the doctor who dances, silent-movie accompanists, sailors’ tales, a novel about Vladimir Putin’s Russia, and more 71 Alumni | A Montana ranching family, Graduate School honorands, Harvard Medalists, election winners, Cambridge Scholars, and senior alumni 76 The College Pump | A professor who loomed large, hoary class list, Harvard’s billion-year lease on life, and more p. 39 84 Treasure | Scandalous workout attire for women On the cover: Taken at Massachusetts Hall, 77 Crimson Classifieds May 9, 2018. Photograph by Jim Harrison FROM TOP: JIM HARRISON; DONALDSON; LYNN STU ROSNER; KEVIN GRADY/RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE www.harvardmagazine.com Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 LETTERS EDITOR: John S. Rosenberg SENIOR EDITOR: Jean Martin Cambridge MANAGING EDITOR: Jonathan S. Shaw ART DIRECTOR: Jennifer Carling Tax reform, shopping week, enabling expertise ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Marina Bolotnikova, Sophia Nguyen STAFF WRITER/EDITOR: Lydialyle Gibson DIGITAL MEDIA MANAGER: Oset Babür OUR TOWNS me. Romance and nostalgia reminiscent of ASSISTANT EDITOR: Nell Porter Brown I was pleasantly surprised to see that one Lindbergh, to be sure. Likely a trifle pricey, BERTA GREENWALD LEDECKY place the Fallowses covered was my home- though bold and unique in conception. UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWS town and current place of residence, Sioux But the need to criticize Trump adminis- Natasha Lasky, Tawanda Mulalu Falls (“Our Towns,” by Lincoln Caplan, May- tration policies that somehow run counter June, page 44). After 17 years as a pastor in a to what is “in the country’s best interests” EDITORIAL INTERN: Sanya Sagar Wisconsin suburb of the Twin Cities, I was confused me. Precisely which policies? The also amazed to return here to find that, in- repatriation of trillions of dollars in business CONTRIBUTING EDITORS deed, the place I’d grown up in, surrounded profits parked uselessly overseas awaiting re- John T. Bethell, Lincoln Caplan, John by descendants of immigrants from Scandi- introduction into our economy by way of tax de Cuevas, Dick Friedman, Adam navia and other parts of northern Europe, reform…which we now have? Or the comple- Goodheart, Elizabeth Gudrais, Jim was populated by tens of thousands of people tion of the Keystone pipeline which we hope Harrison, Courtney Humphries, from Ukraine, South and Southeast Asia, Leb- will avert catastrophic railcar disasters like Christopher S. Johnson, Adam Kirsch, anon, Syria, Liberia, Nepal, and Latin Amer- what occurred in Quebec and Virginia? Is it Colleen Lannon, Spencer Lenfield, Stu ica, and that dozens of languages have enliv- the aggressive and successful stance taken Rosner, Deborah Smullyan, Mark Steele ened the streets and dining scene. From my against rogue militarism in North Korea, Syr- HARVARD MAGAZINE INC. pastoral perspective of seeing a very diverse ia, and now Iran? The willingness to protect PRESIDENT: Margaret H. Marshall, Ed.M. world now represented all around us here in our southern border with an effective wall ’69. DIRECTORS: Peter K. Bol, Jonathan the Heartland, perhaps the article could have and a network of judges doing the business L.S. Byrnes, D.B.A. ’80, Scott V. Edwards, been titled, “What the Heaven is Happening of the people who placed them on the bench Thomas F. Kelly, Ph.D. ’73, Ann Marie in America?” in the first place? It must be the positive at- Lipinski, NF ’90, Lars Peter Knoth While I no longer hear the Swedish my titude of our president about the dignity of Madsen, John P. Reardon Jr. ’60, immigrant grandparents spoke, I do hear work and his belief in perpetuating a durable what may well be Swahili. Mirabile dictu! middle class that is supported by rethinking Bryan E. Simmons ’83 Rev. Randy Fredrikson, M.Div. ’72 our long out-of-balance pay scales. Surely that Sioux Falls, S.D. must rankle the privileged, the overpaid, over- BOARD OF INCORPORATORS educated, and the underworked everywhere. This magazine, at first called the Harvard Bulletin, was Reading the recent article about puddle- What mental myopia is it that still invests founded in 1898. Its Board of Incorporators was char- jumping across the country in a private the “best and the brightest”? I know not, tered in 1924 and remains active in the magazine’s governance. The membership is as follows: Stephen J. plane, trekking from one big-small-town but vow to be in-the-face of that self-serv- Bailey, AMP ’94; Jeffrey S. Behrens ’89, William I. Ben- to another, to get a journalistic sense of what ing myopia wherever I can. Elitism needs to nett ’62, M.D. ’69; John T. Bethell ’54; Peter K. Bol; Fox the heck is hap- come to an end, soon, or else colleges them- Butterfield ’61, A.M. ’64; Sewell Chan ’98; Jonathan S. pening out there, selves may cease to be relevant. Cohn ’91; Philip M. Cronin ’53, J.D. ’56; John de Cuevas ’52; James F. Dwinell III ’62; Anne Fadiman ’74; Benja- both fascinated Thomas M. Zubaty ’72 min M. Friedman ’66, Ph.D. ’71; Robert H. Giles, NF and disturbed Marstons Mills, Mass. ’66; Richard H. Gilman, M.B.A. ’83; Owen Gingerich, Ph.D. ’62; Adam K. Goodheart ’92; Philip C. Haughey ’57; Brian R. Hecht ’92; Sarah Blaffer Hrdy ’68, Ph.D. THEN AND NOW: On the cover, Drew Gilpin Faust ’75; Ellen Hume ’68; Alex S. Jones, NF ’82; Bill Kovach, at Massachusetts Hall, May 9, 2018, and left, as Radcliffe NF ’89; Florence Ladd, BI ’72; Jennifer 8 Lee ’99; Ran- dolph C. Lindel ’66; Ann Marie Lipinski, NF ’90; Scott Institute dean and president-elect, April 26, 2007, at Fay Malkin ’80, J.D.-M.B.A. ’83; Margaret H. Marshall, House (July-August 2007 issue). Her Commencement Ed.M. ’69, Ed ’77, L ’78; Lisa L. Martin, Ph.D. ’90; David McClintick ’62; Winthrop L. McCormack ’67; M. Lee address, and valedictory, appears at page 21. An over- Pelton, Ph.D. ’84; John P. Reardon Jr. ’60; Harriet Ritvo view of her presidency begins on page 46. ’68, Ph.D. ’75; Henry Rosovsky, JF ’57, Ph.D. ’59, LL.D. ’98; Barbara Rudolph ’77; Robert N. Shapiro ’72, J.D. ’78; Theda Skocpol, Ph.D. ’75; Peter A. Spiers ’76; Scott H. Stossel ’91; Sherry Turkle ’69, Ph.D. ’76; Robert H. Weiss ’54; Jan Ziolkowski. 2 July - August 2018 Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 LEttERS 7 WARE STREET tion, research programs in data science and He suggested that Gen Ed courses ought inequality, and other initiatives; et cetera. to challenge students’ “ingrained” ideas— Unfinished Business One critical piece of unfinished business aiming away from conveying facts and ex- The conclusion of Drew Faust’s presi- relates squarely to Smith’s interest in teach- plicitly toward transforming and broad- dency coincides with Michael D. Smith’s an- ing and learning, and the faculty’s obliga- ening how “students think about things nounced departure from the Faculty of Arts tion to deliver on same: populating the new that they enter the class thinking that they and Sciences (FAS) deanship. Faust and General Education courses, and launching know.” (Thus, not “Who won the Battle Smith, like Neil L. Rudenstine and Jeremy the program successfully for undergradu- of Bull Run?” but “Is the United States still R. Knowles, held their offices for the dura- ates in 2019. The faculty’s review of this part fighting the Civil War?”) In a distressingly tion of a Harvard administration—in this of the curriculum, concluded in 2016, found polarized, partisan time—what Smith called case, since 2007.