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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, Science & Nature

Embryonic Stem Cell Research

A moral defense.

F. M. Kamm

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Citizenship in Emergency

Can democracy protect us against terrorism?

Elaine Scarry

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

Darwin and Design

A debate about the latest defense of intelligent design.

William A. Dembski, H. Allen Orr

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

Do We Need a God?

Maybe not.

Richard Eldridge

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

A Sublime Detective Story

William Dembski's No Free Lunch makes a confused case for Intelligent Design.

H. Allen Orr

Law & Justice, Philosophy & Religion

Recent Books on Capital Punishment

 The nine volumes under review here add much of value to the already burgeoning literature on the death penalty.

Hugo Adam Bedau

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The Place of Tolerance in Islam

On reading and misreading the Qur'an.

Khaled Abou El Fadl

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Is the Internet Bad for Democracy?

Emerging technologies increase people's ability to wall themselves off from topics and opinions that they would prefer to avoid, creating serious dangers.

Cass Sunstein

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Faith in Politics?

Black problems are real, and often getting worse. We need new leadership community-based leadership in the black community.

Eva T. Thorne, Eugene F. Rivers III

Global Justice, Law & Justice

Down on Law

Germany's most influential jurist of the authoritarian right wing.

William E. Scheuerman

Arts in Society, Philosophy & Religion

Happy World

What Lyn Hejinian's poetry tells us about chance, fortune, and pleasure.

Marjorie Perloff

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

Ethics and Equality

Egalitarianism must be understood as part of a more encompassing view of how best to live. 

Stuart White

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