At first, it looked like a paradigm of science done right. A group of behavioral scientists had repeated the same experiments ...

Journal retractions are a necessary part of the scientific process. They allow the scientific community both to correct ...

I n the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision on racial affirmative action and ongoing barriers to student-debt cancellation, state and federal policymakers are seeking new ways to reach racially ...

The lure of decent-paying jobs available without college degrees has some people rethinking whether college is necessary. The trend has big implications for the work force, society, and the ...

The spread of misinformation poses a serious threat to science, public health, and democracies worldwide. In a recent essay ...

I was a bit surprised to read an op-ed last week in The Boston Globe that seemed to argue — that came right up to the line of arguing — that there are too many Jews among Harvard’s administrators. You ...

The selection of Valerio Ferme as president came as a relief to many after a contentious search process marred by political ...

most of them graduating and a lot of them drunk. The air was thick with the tension oozing out of a thousand bodies; up on ...

In a 2020 essay critiquing academic philosophy’s norms against aestheticizing or personalizing one’s writing, the philosopher ...

The former head of a now-dissolved faculty body says the administration’s actions reek of retaliation. The university says it ...

At one level,” he writes, “my book is a history of the study of Greek history from...the 18th century to the present day.” ...

Gag rules.” Price fixing. “Anticompetitive agreements.” A new lawsuit seeks to skewer academic-publishing heavyweights, but ...