The Harvard Gazette

David Kennedy

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“There’s got to be emphasis on prevention or we’ll be doing cleanup forever,” says John R. Knight, director of the Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Matching policy to power of addiction

Officials in public health and law enforcement work to lift heroin users from cycle of suffering and crime

World|

DateOctober 6, 2015April 2, 2019

Noted French economist Thomas Piketty spoke before an overflow crowd inside Austin Hall at Harvard Law School, touching on his bestselling book's widely critiqued equation for explaining growing income inequality.

Explaining ‘Capital’

In Harvard visit, economist Thomas Piketty discusses his landmark text, conceding ‘strong limitations’

World|

DateMarch 10, 2015May 6, 2019

New York Times columnist David Brooks said that scientists who study the mind, rather than theologians or philosophers, are yielding the most interesting answers to questions of what constitutes character, ethics, and virtue. He delivered this year's Science and Democracy Lecture.

Learning to love the irrational mind

Columnist Brooks explores role of emotions in politics, policy, and life

Science|

DateApril 13, 2011July 10, 2019