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Philosophy Science

The Virtue of Scientific Thinking

Scientists have discarded the moral authority that previously accrued to their vocation.

  • Steven Shapin
Law Race

Americans Love King Because They Don’t Understand Him

Celebrating him as a figure of unity and tolerance erases his actual politics from public memory.

  • Simon Waxman
Gender & Sexuality Politics Race

Pat Lynch’s Deadly Machismo

In this drama of race and sexuality, the NYPD could learn something from Mayor de Blasio.

  • Judith Levine
Race

Martin Luther King on Non-Violence and Disarmament

Whether addressing church parishioners or college students, King often demanded an end to the nuclear arms race.

  • Vincent Intondi
Arts in Society

After J. S. Bach / Cello Suite No. 6, BWV 1012

  • J. Mae Barizo
Class & Inequality

Don’t Believe the Hype—We’re Not Even Close to Full Employment

Millions of prime age workers did not just suddenly decide to retire. They left the labor force because of weak labor demand.

  • Dean Baker

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Race

Discrimination and Hiring

From job-seeking to medical treatment, many decision-makers decide with a racial tilt (consciously or not).

  • Claude S. Fischer
Arts in Society

The Magician’s Volunteer

  • Christopher Roberts
Arts in Society Law

The Rhetoric of Cowardice

Recovering its usage.

  • Kyle Williams
Arts in Society

Death Mask

On Louise Glück’s Faithful and Virtuous Night.

  • Craig Morgan Teicher
Class & Inequality Race

What SAT Critics Miss

By and large, admissions tests register rather than create inequality.

  • Jeffrey Aaron Snyder
Gender & Sexuality Philosophy

Sex Is Serious

When it comes to consent, feminists and Christians agree.

  • Elizabeth Bruenig
Science

One in Five

One in five in college women is sexually assaulted. This statistic might be wrong, but does it matter?

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling
Arts in Society

Microreview: Andrew Durbin, Mature Themes

  • Andrew Ridker
Politics

Ever-Crumbling Walls

The identity of a nation lies in its borders.

  • Santiago Zabala
  • Søren Tinning
Philosophy Politics

Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement

One of the largest peaceful protest movements in recent world history.

  • Guobin Yang
  • Ran Liu
Politics

Democrats’ Immigrant Burden

  • Marisa Abrajano
  • Zoltan Hajnal
Arts in Society

Out of the Body

Mark Wunderlich’s The Earth Avails

  • Michael Klein
Arts in Society

Fourth Theory: Pleasure, and We Stared Awed

  • Franke Varca

From the Editors: January/February 2015

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen
Class & Inequality Gender & Sexuality Politics

Lurching Toward Happiness in America

Claude S. Fischer paints a broad picture of what Americans say they want—and suggests what might finally get them there.

  • Claude S. Fischer
Arts in Society Law

“The Tremendous Suffering of Ordinary People”

Barbara Rylko-Bauer’s A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps.

  • Paul Farmer
Politics Race

Ferguson Won’t Change Anything. What Will?

Michael Brown shouldn’t be a poster child for social justice movements.

  • Glenn C. Loury
with responses from
  • Danielle Allen
  • Christopher Lebron
  • Harold Pollack
  • Melissa Nobles
  • Tracey L. Meares & Benjamin Justice
  • Gary Segura
  • Michael C. Dawson
  • Susan Sturm
  • Dorian T. Warren
  • Doug Henwood
Arts in Society Politics Science

Of Popes and Dogs

The Church has always had a vexed, somewhat aggrieved relation to dogs and their status as things to be blessed or sanctified.

  • Colin Dayan
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