Social Sciences
Explore faculty and student work in economics, sociology, political science, anthropology, and other disciplines shaping our understanding of society.
Harvard Law School Announces a New National Security Initiative
The program will focus on the U.S. Congress and the separation of powers in its first year.
CARES Act watchdog Bharat Ramamurti ’03
Bharat Ramamurti ’03 oversees CARES Act spending—and pursues corporate reform.
Claudia Jones
Brief life of an intersectional activist: 1915-1964
Michael Sandel’s “The Tyranny of Merit” reviewed by Spencer Lenfield
Michael Sandel makes the case against meritocracy.
Medford’s Royall House and Slave Quarters
Preserving black history as “an act of liberation”
Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic, led by Emily Broad Leib
A holistic approach to food safety and food law
Using puzzles to teach physics
In his freshman seminar, Cumrun Vafa uses puzzles to help students understand complex physics.
by Steve Nadis
Dairy culture on the Eurasian Steppe
Ancient dental plaque points to the historical significance of dairy culture on the Eurasian Steppe.
Excerpt from “Exercised,” by Daniel E. Lieberman
A biological anthropologist explains why and how exercise works to combat senescence.
Constitutional scholar Noah Feldman profiled by Lincoln Caplan
Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman’s constitutionalism is a branch of the humanities.
New Test Paradigm Needed for SARS-CoV-2
Michael Mina maintains a new testing regimen could end the COVID-19 pandemic—in three weeks.