Research & Ideas
Discover Harvard research, scholarship, and ideas shaping the world—from science and technology to policy, education, and the humanities.
Remembering Jack Reardon
He was Harvard’s quintessential people person
Brew’s clues: profile of Theresa McCulla, the Smithsonian's "beer historian"
A historian tracks the craft-beer boom, and the evolution of American taste.
by Bailey Trela
Excerpt from "The Annotated African American Folktales"
The power and legacy of African-American folktales
Alain Locke as activist aesthete
Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization
by Adam Kirsch
Frederick Wiseman gives Harvard's first Norton Lecture on Cinema
Documentarian Frederick Wiseman is the first filmmaker to deliver a Norton Lecture.
Bryan Stevenson on the Evolution of White Supremacy
“I don’t think slavery ended in 1865 —I think it just evolved. I think it turned into decades of terrorism and violence and lynching.”
Meghan O'Sullivan discusses her new book, "Windfall," on energy policy
The United States is finally in a position of energy dominance, but its ability to harness this boom is fraught with challenges.
by Oset Babür
Samuel Huntington remembered
A memorial minute on the eminent political scientist
Harvard botanists hunt rare plants in China
The hunt for rare plants in China
Critic and poet Fred Moten, profiled by Jesse McCarthy
Fred Moten’s subversive black-studies scholarship
A New Cast for the Harvard Semitic Museum
A replica of the Dream Stele, part of Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian’s efforts to revitalize the museum