A Political and Literary Forum
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
Islamic liberalism under fire in India.
Martha C. Nussbaum
We must focus on the laws that continue to put so many noncitizens— including legal residents —into detention and deportation proceedings.
Mark Dow
Reflections on information technology and democracy.
Joshua Cohen
Forgetting Shakir Baloch.
David Mikhail
“Recognizing sharia” in England.
John R. Bowen
The problem with building public spheres from above, online or offline, is much like that of building Frankenstein’s monsters: we may not like the end product.
Evgeny Morozov
In response to Sanford Levinson’s critique of Constitutional Conventions.
William Hogeland
A response to William Hogeland’s “Constitutional Conventions.”
Sanford Levinson
Philosophers weigh in.
Alex Byrne
Martha Nussbaum’s bat mitzvah talk.
Public history should make us think.
. By restricting religious hiring rights, Obama’s faith-based initiative attacks the very thing it claims to be supporting.
Lew Daly
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