Social Sciences
Breaking Bread
Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.
by Jack R. Trapanick
Hybrid Work’s Sweet Spot
A business school study finds hybrid workers generate more novel and useful information.
by Colleen Walsh
The Happiness Revolutionary
Arthur Brooks moved beyond policy—to something deeper.
by Nancy Walecki
An Exchange of Violence
On the “exit wounds” of America’s gun industry in Mexico
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Power of Plants
Exploring the “plant humanities” at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks
by Jonathan Shaw
Reparations for Slavery?
Documenting the history and scope of federal “reparatory compensation.”
by Jonathan Shaw
The Off-Kilter Economy
Reckoning with inflation and its remedies
by Jonathan Shaw
Where We Went Wrong
A sweeping history of society and the economy in the twentieth century
Will Global Democracy Survive?
Scholars on the current rise of fascism, domestically and abroad
by Nancy Walecki
America’s Riven Politics
A Harvard Magazine Q & A with Evan Osnos ’98, author of Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury
Seeking the First Speakers of Indo-European Language
Ancient DNA sheds new light on the origins of a lingua franca.
by Jonathan Shaw