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.
A scholar's prescient view of global immigration—in 1996
In industrial nations worldwide, a fin de siècle hysteria builds over immigration.
The short-term investing trap
Long-term investors fall to short-term thinking.
by Jacob Sweet
New HGSE dean Bridget Terry Long takes stock a year in
New HGSE dean Bridget Terry Long seeks to “expand, double down, and deepen our impact.”
Ellen Newbold La Motte
Brief life of a bold activist: 1873-1961
Edward S. Steinfeld reviews Ezra Vogel’s “China and Japan: Facing History”
The parallel, perilous, histories of China and Japan
"Effective Treatment Everywhere"
A joint Harvard-University of Michigan summit addresses opioids stigma, drug marketing, and race.
Howard Gardner et al. on higher education in the twenty-first century
Howard Gardner and colleagues release a seven-year study of higher education in the twenty-first century.
Excerpt from Anne Harrington’s “Mind Fixers”
A history of psychiatry’s troubled search for the biology of mental illness
In search of deeper learning
What the rare bright spots in American high-school education teach
A key to the markets?
Corporate reports contain clues to predicting a firm’s future performance.