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
Can perfect equality exist?
Eric Nelson says John Rawls led modern philosophy astray.
Should “acting locally” become a legal mandate?
In combatting climate change, will courts hold that the general welfare trumps local sovereignty?
Social geographer Ryan Enos
The political scientist explains “social geography.”
The Undergraduate on the ethics of gathering knowledge
The Undergraduate explores the ethics of gathering knowledge.
by Julie Chung
Sesame Street's fiftieth anniversary party at Harvard
Sesame Street celebrates a 50-year collaboration with Harvard.
Eighth Annual HILT Conference Focuses on Peer Learning
The eighth annual conference of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching
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.
John Rawls and the remaking of political philosophy
The lasting influence and limitations of John Rawls’s political philosophy
Updates on Peter Brand, Roland Fryer, the graduate-student union, and more
A coach cashiered, a professor sanctioned, an Allston update, and more
Historian Elizabeth Hinton: a profile
Historian Elizabeth Hinton probes the roots of a gathering crisis.