Social Sciences
Breaking Bread
Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.
by Jack R. Trapanick
Active Grandparenting, Costly Repair
A biological anthropologist explains why and how exercise works to combat senescence.
by Daniel E. Lieberman
Near and Distant Objectives
Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman’s constitutionalism is a branch of the humanities.
by Lincoln Caplan
Claudia Jones
Brief life of an intersectional activist: 1915-1964
by Clarissa Atkinson
No One Deserves a Spot at Harvard
Michael Sandel makes the case against meritocracy.
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
Royall House and Slave Quarters
Preserving black history as “an act of liberation”
by Nell Porter Brown
Failing the Coronavirus-Testing Test
Michael Mina maintains a new testing regimen could end the COVID-19 pandemic—in three weeks.
by Jonathan Shaw
Could COVID-19 Transform U.S. Education?
A conversation on the crisis and its outcomes with the Graduate School of Education’s Paul Reville
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
At Home with Harvard: American Democracy
Our coverage of the nation's ailing democracy
Bringing Black History to Light
A Houghton Library project to digitize thousands of African-American records and artifacts
by Lydialyle Gibson
At Home with Harvard: Harvard in the World
Harvard Magazine’s coverage of the University’s expanding global reach