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Class & Inequality, Philosophy & Religion

A More Perfect Meritocracy

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

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Philosophy & Religion

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

Do We Need a New Constitutional Convention?

A discussion of the fear and inertia baked into U.S. politics.

Richard Kreitner, Sanford Levinson

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

The Riptide of Technocracy

Is a centralized European Union compatible with democracy?

Jonathan White

Arts in Society, Philosophy & Religion

In Memory of Sheldon Wolin (1922–2015)

The revolutionary theorist sought not liberal stability but democratic adventure.

Anne Norton

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The Lure of Luxury

Most people own things they don’t really need. It is worth thinking about why.

Paul Bloom

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

Ghost in the Machine

Is digital life soulless or the site of a new transcendence?

Jenny Hendrix

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

Reliable Rebel

Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the UK Labour Party, is helping to revive the radical left.

Martin O’Neill

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

Thoreau’s Public Mind

The author of Walden was not an enemy of civic life.

Simon Waxman

Philosophy & Religion

Feeling into Action

Lori Gruen's Entangled Empathy.

Colin Dayan

Global Justice, Philosophy & Religion

The Growing Orthodox Threat to Israeli Democracy

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

Philosophy & Religion

Finding Your Way Home

Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor's Retrieving Realism.

Peter Godfrey-Smith

Forum

Anxieties of Democracy

Democracy no longer has rivals, but its fairness and effectiveness face skepticism.

Ira Katznelson

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

Effective Altruism's Political Blind Spot

“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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