Research & Ideas
Discover Harvard research, scholarship, and ideas shaping the world—from science and technology to policy, education, and the humanities.
Tarek Masoud Wins Honor For Exploring Disagreements
The Harvard Kennedy School professor has led inquiries into the polarizing conflicts in the Middle East.
Among the Brokenhearted
The ministry of Matthew Ichihashi Potts
The Modern World Reconceived
Interpreting politics through the rise of technocracy, morality, and the “web of capital”
Seeking Climate Solutions
Teams of Harvard researchers have developed concrete proposals for addressing specific climate impacts.
Building a Better World
MASS Design’s healing architecture
by Mark Travis
Hume, Heaney, Harvard—and Peace in Northern Ireland
In life and literature, living “dangerously out between” opposing factions while seeking common ground
Research Clusters Seek Climate Solutions
Teams of Harvard researchers will develop concrete proposals for addressing specific climate impacts.
The Case for Cultural Appropriation
How humans hybridize their civilizations
by Adam Kirsch
Henry Clarke Warren
Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
by David Gauld
How to Adapt to Climate Change
Lessons from Bangkok presented at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
“A Grinding War”
A former ambassador to Ukraine offers her perspective on the conflict