Joanna Weiss
Cognoscenti contributor
Joanna Weiss is the editor of Harvard Magazine. Her writing has also appeared in Politico Magazine, Slate, The Atlantic, The Economist and Boston Magazine. She is a co-author of "Taylor Swift: Album by Album" (Quarto Press, 2025).
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'The Life a Showgirl' is pure fun. That's all it needs to be
I was shocked to learn that a sizable subset of hardcore Swifties hate Taylor's latest album writes Joanna Weiss. Maybe it’s because they're viewing the new album, not just as...
Lessons from the winter that would not end
The Boston winter can be notoriously brutal. But if you live here long enough, you start to recalibrate, writes Joanna Weiss. You think of 40 degrees as balmy. You contemplate...
The real winners at the Oscars this year
The Oscars this year reminded us that the glamorous trappings of Hollywood are stitched together out of very thin thread, writes Joanna Weiss. The real victors are the people who...
What Bill Belichick taught us about winning
Goodbye, dark cloud. Goodbye, hoodie. Goodbye, international man of misery. After 24 years, Bill Belichick has issued his final, gruff pronouncement in a Patriots sweatshirt, writes Joanna Weiss.
An essay for parents of 'Swifties' attending Taylor Swift's Eras Tour
Taylor Swift has kicked off her much-anticipated tour running through the spring and summer. One parent describes the euphoria of attending a concert with a group of her daughter's friends...
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This one goes out to all the Taylor Swift parents
For the parents of Taylor Swift fans, this concert was more than an event, writes Joanna Weiss. We heard the soundtrack of our kids’ childhoods, a discography that spans nearly...
‘Five moms gone electric’: The Lazy Susans will rock you
We’d been part of these crowds for years, writes Joanna Weiss. But this time, we were the ones getting ready to step on the porch and play: five suburban moms...
Buc up, New England. Tom Brady will always be ours
To take on Tom Brady as your own, as New Englanders did, writes Joanna Weiss, was to watch someone pass through your living room wearing a suit full of glitter,...
What Do You Do In A World Gone Mad? You Bake
Life is uncertain and often cruel. 'Crisis baking' can offer predictability and a sweet ending, writes Joanna Weiss.
School's Back! Now Can We Please Keep Some Lessons From Hybrid Learning?
A year ago, we were handed an unexpected experiment in crisis-era education, writes Joanna Weiss. Will we have learned anything from it, in the end?