It seems we’ve decided the humanities have less to give the human race — or more modestly, this country’s future — than the sciences. This is a serious mistake. The sciences and the humanities are ...

Can Asians Think?’ want to initiate this essay with several questions. That is, are we, in Sri Lanka and in our region, ...

The two-fold aim of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University is (i) to study and promote human flourishing, and (ii) to develop and implement systematic approaches to the synthesis of ...

That COVID-19 took a terrible toll not only on children’s academic learning but on their behavioral and psychosocial development is now conventional wisdom. A postmortem in The New York Times issued ...

Remember the story about the elephant seen from different perspectives? Here’s a twist. A biologist with a telescope peered at the animal and said, I see a hairy grayness horizon to horizon. A toenail ...

Charlotte R. Rediker ’26, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Lowell House. Everybody knows about Mark Zuckerberg's journey from Harvard dorm room to Silicon Valley titan.

Things are going badly for universities. They are in the crosshairs of an erratic and aggressive government willing to threaten anything in its path. While the government may have succeeded at ...

The humanities, social sciences, and natural/biological sciences are increasingly interconnected, creating an interdisciplinary framework that enriches both learning and application. Rather than ...

Remember the story about the elephant seen from different perspectives? Here’s a twist. A biologist with a telescope peered at the animal and said, I see a hairy grayness horizon to horizon. A toenail ...