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Rob Reich

Rob Reich is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, helps to lead its Center for Ethics in Society and Institute for Human-Centered AI, and is coauthor, with Jeremy M. Weinstein and Mehran Sahami, of the forthcoming book System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot.

Articles

Most charitable foundations are endowed in perpetuity. But John Stuart Mill argued eternal rights make for bad governance.
Rob Reich

School reform is failing America's children.

Rob Reich

Stanford's Rob Reich examines the role of foundations in democratic societies—the subject of his Boston Review forum essay What Are Foundations For?

Rob Reich

We should examine the potential of online learning with an open mind.

Rob Reich

Rob Reich discusses his views on philanthropy and democracy.

Rob Reich

The writers—including Nobel Laureate in Economics Kenneth Arrow and bestselling authors Paul and Anne Ehrlich—lay out what our country’s principles are, whether we’re living up to them, and what can be done to bring our institutions into better alignment with them.

David B. Grusky, Rob Reich, Debra Satz, Doug McAdam

Forums

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

Forum Responses

The frontier of AI science should be in universities.
Rob Reich
Danielle Allen correctly diagnoses a problem with contemporary education policy. The language of citizenship—and the aspiration to educate for citizenship—has disappeared almost entirely from our vocabulary. This is lamentable for many reasons,...
Rob Reich
Does effective altruism have a politics? There are three ways to answer this question. First, if effective altruism aspires to be a social movement, bringing its approach to charity into the mainstream,...
Rob Reich
Democratic Standards for Philanthropy The great diversity of replies to my essay—some very sympathetic to foundations, others very critical—reflects the unsettled views about what foundations do and how we ought to assess...
Rob Reich
Consider some facts: the 400 wealthiest Americans have more money than the bottom 50 percent of all Americans combined. Between 1979 and 2007, the incomes of the top 1 percent of the...
Debra Satz, Rob Reich

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