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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
The history of Christian Democracy provides both reasons for optimism in Turkey.
Jan-Werner Müller
The main argument of Cognitive Surplus rests on a striking analogy.
Evgeny Morozov
Will Colombia’s democracy survive the violence?
Luis Fernando Medina
A response to Colin Dayan's "Dead Dogs."
Daphna Nachminovitch
How programs like Google Docs rob users of their freedom.
Richard M. Stallman
Natural selection’s secular critics get it wrong.
Ned Block, Philip Kitcher
Vivian Gornick reviews Michael J. Sandel's Justice: What's the Right Thing To Do?
Vivian Gornick
H.L. Hix: Philosopher-Poet.
Troy Jollimore
Albie Sachs’s The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law.
Ryan Thoreson
Edward Carpenter’s democracy of the soul.
Theirs and ours.
Noam Chomsky
The uses of anti-Semitism in Chávez’s Venezuela.
Claudio Lomnitz, Rafael Sánchez
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