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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

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

Trench Democracy in Criminal Justice: an Interview with Lauren Abramson

Participatory Innovation in Unlikely Places.

Albert W. Dzur

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

What Are Radicals Good For? An Interview with George Scialabba

On utopia, the hive mind, reviewers, and intellectuals.

Lindsey Gilbert, George Scialabba

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

Crying Wolf: Democracies in Crisis

An interview with David Runciman on his book, The Confidence Trap.

David Runciman

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

The Sound of Terror: Phenomenology of a Drone Strike

“The drones were terrifying. The buzz of a distant propeller is a constant reminder of imminent death."

Nasser Hussain

Global Justice, Law & Justice

Your Body, Their Property

Who owns human tissues?

Osagie K. Obasogie

Arts in Society, Philosophy & Religion

Subject of Study

If there is a moral limit to artistic license, director Alice Winocour has gone beyond it in Augustine.

Alan A. Stone

Class & Inequality, Philosophy & Religion

Learning Sympathy

The success of humanitarian appeals  is not a given of human nature. They work because we have come to sympathize with the suffering of others, distant and alien.

Claude S. Fischer

Global Justice, Law & Justice

Extremely Local

The American ideal of local government is productive in many ways, but also costly.

Claude S. Fischer

Global Justice, Law & Justice

Slavery, Emancipation, and the Relationship of Freedom and Equality

Elizabeth Anderson visits Stanford's Center for Ethics in Society to discuss objections to slavery and their implications for our understanding of equality.

Elizabeth Anderson

Global Justice, Philosophy & Religion

Slavery, Emancipation, and Equality

Elizabeth Anderson discusses her Wesson Lecture on slavery, emancipation and equality with BR Co-Editor Joshua Cohen and historian David Hollinger.

Elizabeth Anderson, Joshua Cohen, David Hollinger

Class & Inequality, Philosophy & Religion

Democracy and Philanthropy

Stanford's Rob Reich examines the role of foundations in democratic societies—the subject of his Boston Review forum essay What Are Foundations For?

Rob Reich

Forum

Beyond Blame

The philosophy of personal responsibility has ruined criminal justice and economic policy. It's time to move past blame.

Barbara H. Fried

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