Social Sciences
Explore faculty and student work in economics, sociology, political science, anthropology, and other disciplines shaping our understanding of society.
Is the Constitution Broken?
Harvard legal scholars debate the state of our founding national document.
Paul Farmer and Evelynn Hammonds on coronavirus and racial health disparities
A conversation on health disparities, with Paul Farmer and Evelynn Hammonds
Could the reproduction number of SARS-CoV-2 be double early estimates?
A critical scientific question that bears on policies for fighting the pandemic
The Pandemic's Unequal Toll
A Radcliffe Institute online discussion of health disparities laid bare by coronavirus
At Home with Harvard: Rewriting History
From race and colonization to genetics and paleohistory, our favorite stories about the people reshaping the study of history
What rights do children have in homeschooling?
Elizabeth Bartholet highlights risks when parents have 24/7 authoritarian control over their children.
Frontiers
Activity tracking to identify the at-risk elderly, and China’s offshore windfarm potential
Walter Johnson writes about “The Broken Heart of America”
Walter Johnson’s radical history of St. Louis
Ways to cope with the federal debt
The politics, policymaking, and public consequences of mounting government debt—and how to cope with it
David Cutler on trimming U.S. healthcare costs
Administrative costs, greed, overutilization—can these drivers of U.S. medical costs be curbed?
by David Cutler
Rebecca Henderson, “Reimagining Capitalism” to save the planet
The Business School’s Rebecca Henderson reimagines capitalism to save the planet.