Research & Ideas
Discover Harvard research, scholarship, and ideas shaping the world—from science and technology to policy, education, and the humanities.
Jason Furman: Capitalism Is Working. It Could Work Better.
On Open to Debate, the Harvard economist defended free market competition—with meaningful government involvement.
The Immigrant Experience
Glenda Carpio on the new migration narrative
Harvard Lowell House Opera Reimagines an Art Form
Students and professionals collaborate on The Unknowable, an opera-ballet set to premiere at Sanders Theatre this weekend.
Harvard Historians on Trump
Harvard historians’ Supreme Court brief
Geopolitics and the Energy Transition
International relations during the shift to a net-zero economy
Break Every Chain
How black plaintiffs in the Jim Crow South sought justice
The Philosopher of the Real World
Susanna Siegel moves beyond dialectical debates.
Tom Hyry
What Harvard's special collections librarian has learned from athletics, activism
Shakespeare’s Uncanny Presence
Marjorie Garber explores the bard’s influence on the Bloomsbury Group.
How Revolutions Happen
Robert Darnton on the origins of the French Revolutionary temperament
Reforming International Finance
Is it time to reform global financial institutions that support economic and political stability?