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Politics, War & Security

Matters of Choice

The United States will lose the war for control of the Middle East.

Andrew J. Bacevich, Stephen Kinzer

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Saving Privacy

Framing surveillance as a tradeoff between privacy and security is a dead end for democracy.

Reed Hundt

Global Justice, Philosophy & Religion

Our Collaboration with the Stanford Ethics Center

The Bowen H. McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University has partnered with Boston Review to share content from its fellows and guest lecturers.

Deborah Chasman

Global Justice, Philosophy & Religion

Lives of the Moral Saints

An Interview with Larissa MacFarquhar on extreme moral virtue.

David V. Johnson

Forum

What Are Foundations For?

The modern foundation is an institutional oddity in a democracy. A democratic society is committed to the equality of citizens, but foundations are the voice of plutocracy.

Rob Reich

Class & Inequality, Politics

Taxing Away Inequality

Emmanuel Saez and David Grusky discuss why taxation, though a blunt instrument, might be the best available solution.

David B. Grusky, Emmanuel Saez

Class & Inequality, Literature & Culture

An Embarrassment of Riches

Writers of the Gilded Age unsettled the comfortable relations between failure and poverty, wealth and success.

Gavin Jones

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

Before Greed

There was a time when Americans valued "competency" over riches and saw wealth as the cause of poverty.

Richard White

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Occupy the Future

Opinion essays by Stanford University professors exploring key issues raised by Occupy.

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