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Building a Legacy: Family Office Wealth Management 23–26 APR 2019 Learn more www.exed.hbs.edu Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 190106_HBS_ExecEd.indd 1 11/15/18 3:28 PM JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2019, VOLUME 121, NUMBER 3 FEATURES 38 What It Means to Be OK | by Lydialyle Gibson ICU doctor and writer Daniela Lamas probes survivors’ “chronic critical care” 42 Vita: Ulysses S. Grant | by Elizabeth D. Samet Brief life of the image of a hero: 1822-1885 44 Artificial Intelligence and Ethics | by Jonathan Shaw Human dilemmas at the advent of decision-making machines p. 33 50 Native Modern | by Marina Bolotnikova Historian Philip J. Deloria on American Indians’ past—and their presence in American culture JOHN HARVARD’S JOURNAL 15 Arts in Allston, airing out admissions in the courtroom, an intellectual-property scholar, boosting medical research, another (bigger) budget surplus and endowment developments, the Law School on thin ice, National Academy and other honorands, Radcliffe Institute’s worldly engagements, Arts and Sciences’ faculty and finances, policing and student conduct—and other news, the design dean’s departure, the Undergraduate on who belongs here, and a rousing finish to an entertaining football campaign p. 44 p. 76 DEPARTMENTS 2 Cambridge 02138 | Letters from our readers—and a comment on admissions advantages 6 Right Now | Immigrant inventiveness and entrepreneurship, judging leaders by their face values, medical insights from AIDS-resisters 2 12A Harvard | Winter events, unraveling Incan quipu, the pleasures of Portland, Maine, sliding down snowy hills—on purpose, early-American bedding, and more 56 Montage | Finger Lakes varietals, the illustrated Genji, installation artist, an actor-focused playwright, iconic empress and acclaimed architect, uses (and abuses) of ; TAYLOR CALLERY; CALLERY; TAYLOR ; economic austerity, and more 65 Alumni | Cellist and teacher Laurence Lesser, and the Crimson congressional cohort 68 The College Pump | Replanting part of Harvard Yard THE HARVARD CRIMSON HARVARD THE p. 60 76 Treasure | The mystery of Argus Zion 69 Crimson Classifieds On the cover: Photograph by Stu Rosner ASTRID STAWIARZ; HARVARD LIBRARY IMAGING SERVICES FROM TOP: TIM O’MEARA/ 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 Admissions, academic presses, the solicitor general ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Marina N. Bolotnikova, Lydialyle Gibson DIGITAL MEDIA MANAGER: Oset Babür EARLY CHRISTIANITY texts—however sincere or ASSISTANT EDITOR/SPECIAL SECTIONS At the very end of pious—were not included MANAGER: Nell Porter Brown the article (“The Bits the with the canonical writ- BERTA GREENWALD LEDECKY Bible Left Out,” Novem- ings because their prov- UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWS ber-December 2018, page enance was not assured. Isa Flores-Jones, Catherine Zhang 40), we read of “what is While the article leaves valuable about so-called the impression that only CONTRIBUTING EDITORS heretical texts...[and] “heretical” texts were not John T. Bethell, Lincoln Caplan, their closeness to the included, in fact, many Dick Friedman, Adam Goodheart, beginning...” early texts that were con- Elizabeth Gudrais, Jim Harrison, But these texts did not sidered orthodox were Courtney Humphries, Christopher S. have a “closeness to the also excluded. It was not Johnson, Adam Kirsch, Colleen Lannon, beginning,” which is pre- the content that got a text Spencer Lee Lenfield, Stu Rosner, cisely why they were rejected by the earliest excluded, but the lack of a clear connection Deborah Smullyan, Mark Steele followers of Jesus. In contrast, the texts that to the viva voce of the apostles. HARVARD MAGAZINE INC. comprise the New Testament were written The earliest disciples of Jesus were Jews PRESIDENT: Margaret H. Marshall, Ed.M. by the apostles of Jesus or the followers of living in Palestine whose neighbors had also ’69. DIRECTORS: Ann M. Blair ’84, Peter K. the apostles. We have copies of these first- heard Jesus teach, seen him perform mira- Bol, Scott V. Edwards, Ann Marie Lipinski, century texts dating from the early second cles, and watched as he died in a very public century, and by the end of the second cen- crucifixion. Those who wrote the gospels NF ’90, Philip W. Lovejoy, Susan Morris tury, compilations of the four gospels and and letters in such a period would not have Novick ’85, John P. Reardon Jr. ’60, of Paul’s letters were in circulation. Later manufactured new Jesus stories because Bryan E. Simmons ’83 of their allegiance to Christ. With Our Thanks The title “apostle” means “one BOARD OF INCORPORATORS to recognize sent with a message”; they We are honored This magazine, at first called the Harvard Bulletin, was two artists for their outstanding were commissioned by Jesus founded in 1898. Its Board of Incorporators was char- work on readers’ behalf during 2018, to pass on what they had seen tered in 1924 and remains active in the magazine’s governance. The membership is as follows: Stephen and to confer a $1,000 honorarium and heard. Moreover, even had J. Bailey, AMP ’94; Jeffrey S. Behrens ’89, William I. on each. they wanted to, they could not Bennett ’62, M.D. ’69; John T. Bethell ’54; Peter K. Bol; New York-based photographer have made up new Jesus mate- Fox Butterfield ’61, A.M. ’64; Sewell Chan ’98; Jona- COURTESY OF ROBERT ADAM MAYER than S. Cohn ’91; Philip M. Cronin ’53, J.D. ’56; James Robert Adam Mayer is a distin- Robert Adam rial because fellow Jews would F. Dwinell III ’62; Anne Fadiman ’74; Benjamin M. guished and sensitive portraitist— Mayer have known that Jesus had nev- Friedman ’66, Ph.D. ’71; Robert H. Giles, NF ’66; Rich- as amply demonstrated anew in his er said or done such things. As ard H. Gilman, M.B.A. ’83; Owen Gingerich, Ph.D. ’62; Adam K. Goodheart ’92; Philip C. Haughey ’57; Brian cover and interior images of black-studies scholar the Apostle Paul said to a Ro- R. Hecht ’92; Sarah Blaffer Hrdy ’68, Ph.D. ’75; Ellen Fred Moten, for the January-February issue. man official, “these things were Hume ’68; Alex S. Jones, NF ’82;Thomas F. Kelly, Ph.D. Phil Foster conceived vivid, com- not done in a corner.” ’73; William C. Kirby; Bill Kovach, NF ’89; Florence Ladd, BI ’72; Jennifer 8 Lee ’99; Randolph C. Lindel ’66; pelling illustrations to drive home the Dr. Todd L. Lake ’82 Ann Marie Lipinski, NF ’90; Scott Malkin ’80, J.D.- importance of the arguments made by Vice president for spiritual M.B.A. ’83; Margaret H. Marshall, Ed.M. ’69, Ed ’77, L business and law professor Mihir A. development ’78; Lisa L. Martin, Ph.D. ’90; David McClintick ’62; Winthrop L. McCormack ’67; M. Lee Pelton, Ph.D. Desai about the new federal tax law, Belmont University ’84; John P. Reardon Jr. ’60; Harriet Ritvo ’68, Ph.D. ’75; in the May-June issue. Nashville Henry Rosovsky, JF ’57, Ph.D. ’59, LL.D. ’98; Barbara Rudolph ’77; Robert N. Shapiro ’72, J.D. ’78; Theda COURTESY OF PHIL FOSTER Our warmest thanks to these su- Skocpol, Ph.D. ’75; Peter A. Spiers ’76; Scott H. Stossel Phil Foster perb professionals. vThe Editors While there are many things ’91; Sherry Turkle ’69, Ph.D. ’76; Robert H. Weiss ’54; I disagree with in the article on Jan Ziolkowski. 2 January - February 2019 Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 THE VIEW FROM MASS HALL Veritas ne of the first complaints I received after my elec- tion as president was a strongly worded email about a course being offered at Harvard College. It contained a link to an article, shared hundreds of times over, that Osimply juxtaposed the course description with an opinion piece about the instructor and a full-throated criticism of higher educa- tion. This so-called news was nothing new to me. What was new to me, however, was my correspondent’s own admission that the information he had read might not be entirely accurate. “It appears,” he wrote, “to be a true story.” He rushed to judgment and decided it was more important to let me know how the University had failed in its mission than to scrutinize his source. These are tough times for truth. The editorial function has been disintermediated by technology. In times past, it was difficult to publish widely without access to a distribution channel. One could not gain access to print or electronic media without first being re- viewed by an editor. The internet has bypassed all such fact check- ing. As a result, anyone can spread misinformation and disinforma- tion, sometimes without knowing that he or she is doing so. Even the shrewdest consumers of knowledge succumb to the lure of the diversity in every possible dimension; we must invite to our campus likeminded crowd, and I will venture a guess that each of us has at those people who challenge our thinking; we must listen to them least once failed to engage someone who thinks differently for fear carefully and thoughtfully.