Social Sciences
Explore faculty and student work in economics, sociology, political science, anthropology, and other disciplines shaping our understanding of society.
Robert Coles Was Most at Home on the Playground
A colleague remembers the late Harvard professor and child psychiatrist, who died this month.
by Alex Harris
The Happiness Revolutionary
Arthur Brooks moved beyond policy—to something deeper.
An Exchange of Violence
On the “exit wounds” of America’s gun industry in Mexico
The Power of Plants
Exploring the “plant humanities” at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks
Reparations for Slavery?
Documenting the history and scope of federal “reparatory compensation.”
The Off-Kilter Economy
Reckoning with inflation and its remedies
Where We Went Wrong
A sweeping history of society and the economy in the twentieth century
Will Global Democracy Survive?
Scholars on the current rise of fascism, domestically and abroad
America’s Riven Politics
A Harvard Magazine Q & A with Evan Osnos ’98, author of Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury
Seeking the First Speakers of Indo-European Language
Ancient DNA sheds new light on the origins of a lingua franca.
Who Should Drive an Electric Vehicle?
Targeting the wrong buyers—and producing more greenhouse-gas emissions