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.
Can perfect equality exist?
Eric Nelson says John Rawls led modern philosophy astray.
David Damrosch promotes world literature
David Damrosch’s literary global reach
Excerpt from “The Soul of Care” by Arthur Kleinman
A medical anthropologist cares for his Alzheimer’s-stricken wife.
A scholar's prescient view of global immigration—in 1996
In industrial nations worldwide, a fin de siècle hysteria builds over immigration.
B vitamin content of rice declines with rising CO2
A new study quantifies the global impact of declines in a single nutrient in a single crop, and hints at wider impacts.
The Market-Model University
Humanities in the age of money
Excerpt from Suzanne Preston Blier, “Picasso’s ‘Demoiselles’”
A Harvard scholar presents the “untold origins of a modern masterpiece.”
The Work of Art
At a seminal conference, black creative intellectuals explore white supremacy, the arts, and justice.
Masha Gessen on the Stories We Tell About Migration
The Russian-American journalist challenges “moral defaults” about immigrants.
In search of deeper learning
What the rare bright spots in American high-school education teach