A significant number of today’s K-12 students will enter college and the workforce without the civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions that they need to fully participate in our constitutional democracy. Lack of civic readiness among young Americans undermines civil discourse, increases alienation and polarization, and makes us more susceptible to misinformation and disinformation. As a result, a growing body of civil society leaders and policymakers have been making the case that the lack of civic readiness among Americans poses a threat to our national security. General Jim Mattis,...

Can an Institutional Commitment to Equity Help Restore the Moral Core of Medicine? Physician moral stress and burnout have emerged as major challenges for US health care, particularly as physicians struggle to prevent patients from falling through the cracks of the complicated, and often opaque, health and hospital systems within which they work. Can hospitals help physicians recapture the moral core of their practice through a broader institutional commitment to equity? And what does it take to establish equity as a core element of hospital systems and practice?

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Professor Katrina Forrester has been co-awarded the Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory. The Award was given for her article "Feminist Demands and the Problem of Housework", published in the American Political Science Review in 2022. 

The Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory is jointly given by the American Political Science Association's Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section, Foundations of Political Theory, and the Women’s Caucus for Political Science. The award commemorates the scholarly, mentoring, and professional...

The Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics (ELSCE) at Harvard University is pleased to welcome Jeffrey Saviano as a Center Associate. As a partner and principal at EY, Jeff is part of the EY global innovation leadership team and host of...