Preview: Ask a Harvard Professor, Season Four
For more information about Harvard Magazine and this podcast, visit www.harvardmagazine.com/podcast and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.For a transcript of this episode, go to https://ha...
28 Okt 20211min
Carrie Lambert-Beatty: What Happens When an Artwork Deceives its Audience?
The term “parafiction” refers to an artistic performance or presentation that depicts fiction as fact. This idea has particular relevance for our current post-truth moment, in which Americans find the...
30 Nov 202036min
Francesca Dominici: How Does Air Pollution Affect COVID-19?
Discussing the link between air pollution and effects of COVID-19, and the importance of data for rapid public-health responses —with Francesca Dominici, professor of biostatistics at the Harvard T.H....
23 Nov 202025min
Rebecca Henderson: Does Capitalism Need to be Reimagined?
How to reform capitalism to confront climate change and extreme inequality, with economist and McArthur University Professor Rebecca HendersonFor more information about Harvard Magazine and this podca...
16 Nov 202039min
Jeannie Suk Gersen: Do Elite Colleges Discriminate Against Asian Americans?
Harvard Law School professor Jeannie Suk Gersen breaks down the use of race in college admissions and the future of affirmative action at the Supreme Court. For more information about Harvard Magazine...
9 Nov 202037min
Danielle Allen: What Do COVID-19 and Extreme Inequality Mean for American Democracy?
In this episode, political philosopher Danielle Allen explains why the COVID crisis, extreme inequality, and undemocratic government are all connected—and how democracy in America can still be reinvig...
2 Nov 202029min
Caroline Buckee: Can Mobile-phone Data Help Control the Spread of the Coronavirus?
Can cellphone technologies play a role in controlling the coronavirus pandemic? Knowing how public health policies interact with people’s actual behavior, even at an anonymous population-level view, c...
26 Okt 202030min
Daniel Schrag and David Keith: Can solar geoengineering help fight climate change?
Climate change may be the hardest problem the human race has ever confronted. In a single century, humans have set in motion events that will unfold on a geological timescale, ultimately redrawing coa...
19 Okt 202046min
