Jeffrey Brown talks to authors and spouses Derek and Sissela Bok, married to each other for 55 years, about their new books exploring the politics and the philosophy of happiness.

NPR's Ari Shapiro and Harvard University President Emeritus Derek Bok remember Walter Leonard. Leonard helped pioneer affirmative action for Harvard University, a model that rippled across other ...

Derek Bok, who twice served as Harvard’s president, has written a new book wherein he responds to critics of elite colleges — on the right and on the left.

That is the beginning of the ninth chapter of a new book by Derek Bok (left), Higher Expectations: Can Colleges Teach Students What They Need to Know in the 21st Century? (Princeton University Press).

David Wippman and Glenn Altschuler review Derek Bok’s Attacking the Elites. Higher education is facing a perfect storm. In polls taken before the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, only 36 ...

Derek Bok, former president of Harvard, undertakes the twin tasks of explaining why Americans hate their government and imagining the reforms that would soften their discontent. For a man as close ...

Bok’s worries about growing government regulation of universities veer into special pleading. He laments, for example, the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision declaring unlawful Harvard’s use of ...

Derek Bok, Former President of Harvard University His new book is Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education.Among the commercial activities at many universities ...