The Harvard Plan
Episodes
The Endless Frontier
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Universities were not always so vulnerable to the whims of politics. The whole system of taxpayer-funded, university-led scientific research came abou...
Jay & Alan
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Harvard president Alan Garber and National Institutes of Health director Jay Bhattacharya are at the heart of the national fight over the future of ...
And so it begins...
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happened at Harvard after Donald Trump’s inauguration? Three main characters, all Harvard insiders, tell the story from their perspective: poli...
Season Two Trailer
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Season One of The Harvard Plan anticipated what could happen to Harvard and academia once the new Trump administration came to power. Season Two picks...
“The Universities Are The Enemy”
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In part three of this collaboration with WNYC’s On The Media, the deep history of Harvard and the distinctly American idea of “diversity” is the...
“Diversity Hire”
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of this collaboration with WNYC’s On The Media, Claudine Gay is accused of academic plagiarism, just days after giving testimony to Cong...
A President on Trial
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In part one of this collaboration with WNYC’s On The Media, Claudine Gay’s history-making inauguration as Harvard’s first Black president in Sep...
The Harvard Plan Season One Trailer
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Universities have become a battlefield in the American culture wars in a way that’s dramatic and new. In the past year, Congress subpoenaed and inve...