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 Off-Kilter Economy
Reckoning with inflation and its remedies
America’s Riven Politics
A Harvard Magazine Q & A with Evan Osnos ’98, author of Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury
Following Frederick Douglass
During a summer fellowship, student-activists learn from the abolitionist’s legacy.
by Isabel Mehta
Milman Parry
Brief life of a Homeric scholar with a big idea: 1902-1935
“A Moral Obligation”
Charles Berlin and 60 years of collecting for Harvard Library
Richard Evans Schultes
Brief life of a pioneering ethnobotanist and conservationist: 1915-2001
Zelenskyy Addresses American Universities
Ukrainian president urges help from students and institutional leaders.
The Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy
Scientists affiliated with the Event Horizon Telescope publish the first image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
“Ukraine Today, Taiwan Tomorrow?”
The East Asian implications of the Russia-Ukraine War
by Jacob Sweet
Harvard Horizons Spotlights Seven Scholars
Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.
by Jacob Sweet