Podcast
Rudolph Tanzi: What Can People Do To Maintain Brain Health As They Age?
Maintaining brain health as we age—with Harvard Medical School neurologist Rudolph Tanzi.
Maya Sen: Have U.S. Courts Become Political Prizes?
How courts in the United States have become politicized, with Maya Sen, professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
David Cutler: Can the U.S. Healthcare System Be Fixed?
Fixing the U.S. healthcare system, with David Cutler, Eckstein professor of applied economics and professor in the department of global health and population at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Joseph S. Nye: How Do Past Presidents Rank in Foreign Policy?
Rating the foreign policy of presidents from FDR to the present day with Joseph Nye, formerly a government professor in FAS, later dean of the Kennedy School, now a University Distinguished Service Professor
Coming Soon: Ask a Harvard Professor, Season Two
Polarization and the U.S. court system, fixing American healthcare, and more from the next season of Harvard Magazine’s podcast.
Marcyliena Morgan: How Has Harvard Cultivated Hiphop?
Marcyliena Morgan discusses the origins of hiphop, and the Harvard archive documenting its beginnings and significance.
Robin Kelsey: Is a Photograph a Work of Art?
This episode of Ask a Harvard Professor poses the question: What makes a photograph art?
Edward Glaeser: Should We All Be Living in Cities?
Edward Glaeser explains why he is overwhelmingly optimistic about urban growth.
David Hemenway: Who Can Solve America’s Gun Problem?
In this episode of Ask a Harvard Professor, David Hemenway describes public-health strategies that can save lives by making guns less dangerous.
Staci Gruber: How Does Marijuana Affect the Brain?
This episode of Harvard Magazine’s podcast, Ask a Harvard Professor, explores the chemical constituents of marijuana and the effects of the plant’s components on human health.
Lawrence Lessig: What Leads to Academic Corruption?
The first episode of Harvard Magazine’s new podcast, Ask a Harvard Professor, delves into academic corruption, and why “doing good can make you bad.”