Social Sciences


Artificial Intelligence in the Academy

Harvard symposium assesses the new technology.

by Jonathan Shaw

Sunil Amrith

The Bay of Bengal is central for this South Asia scholar.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Back-to-School Bookshelf

Derek Bok and other scholars weigh in on improving universities and colleges—and why that’s hard to do.

by John S. Rosenberg

Leaders Born in Darkness

The Business School’s Nancy Koehn analyzes the personal stakes that propel leaders.

Digging Deep into Chinese History

Field notes from a summer archaeological expedition

by Rowan K. Flad

The Rise of Vegan Culture

Studying how a movement went from activist activity to aspirational lifestyle

by Sophia Nguyen

How U.S. Companies Stole American Jobs

Domestic outsourcing, not globalization, has redefined employer-employee ties.

by Oset Babür

Star Power in Politics

Why people vote for celebrities—even when they say they don’t want to.

by Jonathan Shaw

An Educated Core

Yale-NUS, Nicholas Lemann, and Minerva remodel liberal arts for the twenty-first century.

by John S. Rosenberg

Radcliffe Institute Announces 2017-2018 Fellows

Eleven of this year’s 52 fellows come from within the University.

by Oset Babür

China’s Social-Media Smoke Screen

Distraction seems to be the aim of a massive government campaign of fake social media posts.

by Lydialyle Gibson