I am grateful to all the respondents for their engaged, thoughtful, and challenging comments. I will begin by addressing two misunderstandings and then turn to the fundamental question uniting the responses. Deborah...

“Many well-meaning people who long for change have seized on [Michael] Brown’s death as a golden opportunity to organize,” Glenn Loury writes. They have seized this opportunity, he suggests, because there is...

Toward Participatory Democracy For most people, political equality today means formal political rights, such as the right to vote. This is a regrettably limited view. The right to vote is not an...