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Articles tagged with mccoy-family-center-for-ethics-in-society-at-stanford-university
Preparation for democratic citizenship demands humanities education, not just STEM.
A minimally acceptable ethical life involves using a substantial part of one’s spare resources to make the world a better place.
Framing surveillance as a tradeoff between privacy and security is a dead end for democracy.
Ethicists, economists, and others have developed a set of useful tools for deciding what to do when economic, environmental, and social values conflict.
Stanford's Rob Reich examines the role of foundations in democratic societies—the subject of his Boston Review forum essay What Are Foundations For?
Elizabeth Anderson visits Stanford's Center for Ethics in Society to discuss objections to slavery and their implications for our understanding of equality.
In his Arrow Lecture, Anthony Atkinson asks what can be learned from historical experience and from economic models of the generation of inequality.
Elizabeth Anderson discusses her Wesson Lecture on slavery, emancipation and equality with BR Co-Editor Joshua Cohen and historian David Hollinger.
