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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

Making Muslim Democracies

The history of Christian Democracy provides both reasons for optimism in Turkey. 

Jan-Werner Müller

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

Sharing Liberally

The main argument of Cognitive Surplus rests on a striking analogy. 

Evgeny Morozov

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

Ending the Endless War

Will Colombia’s democracy survive the violence?

Luis Fernando Medina

Global Justice, Law & Justice

The Case of Carter

A response to Colin Dayan's "Dead Dogs."

Daphna Nachminovitch

Arts in Society, Global Justice

What Does That Server Really Serve?

How programs like Google Docs rob users of their freedom.

Richard M. Stallman

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

Misunderstanding Darwin

Natural selection’s secular critics get it wrong.

Ned Block, Philip Kitcher

Global Justice, Law & Justice

Right By Others

Vivian Gornick reviews Michael J. Sandel's Justice: What's the Right Thing To Do?

Vivian Gornick

Arts in Society, Philosophy & Religion

Know-How

H.L. Hix: Philosopher-Poet.

Troy Jollimore

Global Justice, Law & Justice

Biography and the Bench

Albie Sachs’s The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law.

Ryan Thoreson

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

The Lost Radical

Edward Carpenter’s democracy of the soul.

Vivian Gornick

Class & Inequality, Philosophy & Religion

Crisis and Hope

Theirs and ours.

Noam Chomsky

Global Justice, Philosophy & Religion

United By Hate

The uses of anti-Semitism in Chávez’s Venezuela.

Claudio Lomnitz, Rafael Sánchez

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