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.
Tracing the Enslaved to Modern Descendants
A new technique for connecting ancient DNA to living relatives may have implications for institutions with legacies of slavery.
Spotting Pollutants from Space
A satellite-mounted instrument developed at the Center for Astrophysics will track air pollution hourly across North America.
Building a Better World
MASS Design’s healing architecture
by Mark Travis
The Modern World Reconceived
Interpreting politics through the rise of technocracy, morality, and the “web of capital”
Among the Brokenhearted
The ministry of Matthew Ichihashi Potts
Seeking Climate Solutions
Teams of Harvard researchers have developed concrete proposals for addressing specific climate impacts.
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