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