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The Virtue of Informality As always, Michael Sandel is both incisive and sensible: markets can crowd out morals. His argument is two-fold. First, that some social transactions lose value when they are...
Richard Sennett
Martha Nussbaum’s eloquent essay has a more convoluted background than appears in her text. Richard Rorty’s attack on American intellectuals on the left for lacking patriotism responded to a piece I had...
Richard Sennett

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