Social Sciences
Explore faculty and student work in economics, sociology, political science, anthropology, and other disciplines shaping our understanding of society.
An Original Magna Carta, Hidden in Plain Sight
A rare original surfaces at Harvard at an “almost providential” moment.
by Nina Pasquini
Mount Laurel and Climate Change
In combatting climate change, will courts hold that the general welfare trumps local sovereignty?
by Cherone Duggan
"Smarter, Stronger, Kinder"
Sesame Street celebrates a 50-year collaboration with Harvard.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Learning, and Teaching, As Peers
The eighth annual conference of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching
by Jonathan Shaw
From the Archives: The Case for Smaller Classes
We look back to one of the classic experiments in education: an attempt to determine the effects of class size on young students’ learning.
by Frederick Mosteller
The Rawlsian Revolution
The lasting influence and limitations of John Rawls’s political philosophy
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
News Briefs
A coach cashiered, a professor sanctioned, an Allston update, and more
Color and Incarceration
Historian Elizabeth Hinton probes the roots of a gathering crisis.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Adella Hunt Logan
Brief life of a rebellious black suffragist: 1863-1915
by Adele Logan Ale...
Toward the Negotiated City
In the history of urban renewal, a glimmer of the possibilities of social policy today
by Ann Forsyth
From the Archives: The Wired Society
In 1999, scholars, finance experts, an entrepreneur, and a journalist considered the emerging Internet.