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What Marx Got Wrong About Capitalism

A Racial Capitalism Reading List 

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Race

Succeeding While Black

Michelle Obama’s new book reduces racial inequality to a matter of psychological impairment that can be overcome through grit and grin. This is a dangerous proposition.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Philosophy & Religion

Is Philanthropy Anti-Democratic?

Most charitable foundations are endowed in perpetuity. But John Stuart Mill argued eternal rights make for bad governance.

Rob Reich

Forum

Cities on a Hill?

Cities are increasingly being viewed as bastions of progressivism. But can they live up to the promise?

Quinton Mayne

Science & Nature

How Good Health Became a Numbers Game

It is no longer necessary to feel ill in order to be ill.

Christopher J. Phillips

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