A Political and Literary Forum
Two new books take aim at the moral failures of meritocracy. But we can advocate for a more just society without giving up on merit.
Agnes Callard
A discussion of the fear and inertia baked into U.S. politics.
Richard Kreitner, Sanford Levinson
Is a centralized European Union compatible with democracy?
Jonathan White
The revolutionary theorist sought not liberal stability but democratic adventure.
Anne Norton
Most people own things they don’t really need. It is worth thinking about why.
Paul Bloom
Is digital life soulless or the site of a new transcendence?
Jenny Hendrix
Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the UK Labour Party, is helping to revive the radical left.
Martin O’Neill
The author of Walden was not an enemy of civic life.
Simon Waxman
Lori Gruen's Entangled Empathy.
Colin Dayan
It is becoming impossible to ignore the growing theocratic elements in a nation that sees itself as the only democracy in the Middle East.
Elad Uzan
Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor's Retrieving Realism.
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Democracy no longer has rivals, but its fairness and effectiveness face skepticism.
Ira Katznelson
“Effective altruism,” the philanthropic movement founded on Peter Singer’s ideas, applies a consequentialist philosophy to the problem of global poverty.
Emily Clough
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