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.
Scrutinizing facial-recognition ability
“Super-recognizers” have an astonishing ability to identify faces.
Tyler Moore explains how the bad guys take over personal computers
Phishing pits an organized criminal ecosystem against a jumbled array of private "takedown" firms, domain-name registrars, and ISPs.
Jill Lepore on Ayelet Waldman, Michael Lewis, and the cultural history of parent
History professor Jill Lepore's take on recent parenting memoirs
A professor with Harvard Kennedy School ties attacks gang violence.
A professor with Kennedy School ties questions zero-tolerance policing policies.
Sexual apartheid in medieval England
Cutting-edge science helps historians push further and more fully into the past.
On the Medicalization of Our Culture
In a Humanities Center symposium, scholars outlined how the concepts of disease and diagnosis pervade ever more facets of our lives.
Harvard Economists' Take on the Financial Crisis
A new webpage aggregates the views of professors including Martin Feldstein, Gregory Mankiw, Kenneth Rogoff, and many others.
Save Yourself
Harvard Business School’s Peter Tufano says simplifying savings-bond purchases for small savers will benefit citizens and government alike.
The Internet: Foe of Democracy?
The Internet, by allowing like-minded individuals to self-segregate, has had a polarizing effect on democracy, suggests Harvard Law School’s Cass Sunstein..
The Developing Child
With a new interdisciplinary center, Harvard turns its focus to the earliest years of life.