Ricardo Hausmann for Project Syndicate

 Certainty is like a rainbow: wonderful but relatively rare. More often than not, we know that we don’t know. We may seek to remedy this by talking to people who may know what we want to know. But how do we know that they know? If we cannot ascertain whether they actually do know, we must trust them.

Historically, we have bestowed our trust on the basis of science, experience, or divine inspiration. But what if the knowledge we seek does not yet exist, and even science knows that it does not know what is being...

This Fall 2020 semester, WGS professor Bradley Craig will be offering a new seminar WOMGEN 1469 Luxury and Commodity Pleasures: Histories of Gender, Sex, and Racial Capitalism.

Course Description

This upper-level seminar explores the relationship between the gendered history of luxury—as commodity, aesthetic, and affect—and the history of racial capitalism from slavery to the hip-hop era. Many scholars have increasingly drawn attention to the phenomenon of racial capitalism, or the ways that slavery and anti-black racism...

With the celebration of Harvard’s first-ever virtual Commencement now complete, the Bok Center bids a fond farewell to another cohort of alumni, including dozens of undergraduate and graduate student fellows. Though they may have received their degrees in topics ranging from Hebrew Philology to Human Evolutionary Biology, their shared commitment to cultivating a community of thoughtful and reflective teachers and communicators here at Harvard will serve all of them well in their future careers. We are proud of their many accomplishments, and look forward to hearing great things...

Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP) Director, Robert Stavins, opened a special session in memory of Professor Martin Weitzman at the annual meeting of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) on Friday, June 26,...