The idea of meritocracy, in its changed positive sense, has become popular in much of Asia and in the two mega-economies of the region,…
This is a bold and intriguing paper. It offers a new explanation for poverty reduction (or lack thereof) and interesting new empirical…
Plato Goes to China is a study of Chinese academics and policymakers who draw on interpretations of classical texts. Among Bartsch’s themes…
In “Into the Bright Sunshine,” Samuel G. Freedman makes the case that Humphrey was part of the vanguard in the fight for civil rights.
At the start of the 2022–2023 academic year, a group of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health students approached me to ask whether I…
We all read him, those of us who did graduate work in U.S. diplomatic history in the late 1980s and early 1990s. For although there were…
Larry Cuban, a former public-schools superintendent turned urban historian, confesses to hold much the same view. Students are not learning…