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Lauren Brodsky’s “Because Data Can’t Speak for Itself”

How to galvanize leaders and policymakers to action on the world’s most pressing problems? It’s not with a list of numbers. Instead, it depends on telling compelling stories about real people.

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Behind the Book

Behind the Book is a video storytelling series that dives into books authored by HKS faculty. Each video distills one book’s critical insights for a worldwide audience. Produced by HKS Library & Research Services.

 

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Anthony Saich’s “From Rebel to Ruler”

The Chinese Communist Party rose to power thanks to a small band of young men who navigated treacherous political waters. HKS Professor Anthony Saich traces this rise and how it has shaped modern China.

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Sheila Jasanoff’s “Can Science Make Sense of Life?”

How far should the capacity to manipulate what life is at the molecular level authorize science to define what life is for? Professor Sheila Jasanoff looks at flash points in law, politics, ethics, and culture to argue that science’s promises of perfectibility have gone too far.