Humanities & Arts
Explore the intellectual and creative pursuits within philosophy, history, literature, and the fine arts at Harvard.
Harvard Professor Michael Sandel Wins Philosophy’s Berggruen Prize
The creator of the popular ‘Justice’ course receives a $1 million award.
Harvard Historians on Trump
Harvard historians’ Supreme Court brief
Break Every Chain
How black plaintiffs in the Jim Crow South sought justice
The Philosopher of the Real World
Susanna Siegel moves beyond dialectical debates.
Tom Hyry
What Harvard's special collections librarian has learned from athletics, activism
Shakespeare’s Uncanny Presence
Marjorie Garber explores the bard’s influence on the Bloomsbury Group.
How Revolutions Happen
Robert Darnton on the origins of the French Revolutionary temperament
The GOP's Return to Ideas?
Proposing a new Republican platform
How Not to Write about Minorities
Viet Thanh Nguyen urges moving beyond the “sob story.”
#MeToo Meets Mt. Olympus
A new play at the A.R.T. provides a modern take on ancient mythologies
Bringing Art to Life
Cecilia Zhou’s approach to makeup, protest, and science