Zeitgeist Magazine

For the last thirty years, The Harvard Review of Philosophy—edited entirely by undergraduates—has published an annual journal of professional philosophy. Being the world’s only journal of its kind in print, copies have reached over a thousand universities and libraries worldwide.

Out of a belief that philosophy, or philosophia (“the love of wisdom”), should not merely be about abstractions, but rather about capturing the spirit of the time, the so-called "zeitgeist," the Review has since 2023 published an undergraduate-run magazine of popular philosophy. While the purpose of Zeitgeist is to provide an opportunity for students to read and write accessible philosophy on their own terms, we have a more ambitious goal, too: capturing, as best we can, the spirit of our time—political, cultural, artistic, and personal. We think no one is better suited for this project than students coming to intellectual maturity at a time as important, dynamic, and ever-changing as ours.

Both Harvard and non-Harvard undergraduates are welcome to submit their pieces for consideration.

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Zeitgeist issues:

• Volume 3, No. 1: Recognition (Fall 2025, forthcoming)

• Volume 2, No. 2: Love (Spring 2025)

• Volume 2, No. 1: Eudaimonia (Fall 2024)

• Volume 1, No. 2: Ruminations (Spring 2024)

• Volume 1, No. 1: Conception (Fall 2023)