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Slavery, Emancipation, and the Relationship of Freedom and Equality

Two Objections to Slavery

  • Elizabeth Anderson
Class & Inequality Politics

Where Is Inequality Headed?

What History and Economics Tell Us About Inequality's Future

  • Anthony Atkinson
Law Philosophy Politics

Slavery, Emancipation, and Equality

Wesson Lecture Discussion

  • Elizabeth Anderson
  • Joshua Cohen
  • David Hollinger
Gender & Sexuality Law Politics

Arresting Robert Mugabe

An interview with activist Peter Tatchell.

  • Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Arts in Society

KY

  • Jennifer Kronovet
Law

Oversight Lite

If we already know the government violated the law, the fact that its actions were subject to oversight does not excuse the violation.

  • Elizabeth Goitein

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Law Science

High in Uruguay

The South American Country May Soon Be the First in the World to Officially Cultivate and Distribute Marijuana

  • Michelle García
Arts in Society Law Politics

The Book

When two scientists discover a book looted by the Nazis, they seek out the rightful heir and in the process explore the reparations process of early postwar days.

  • Karin Andert
  • Niko Kohls
Arts in Society Law Politics

Direct Expression

An interview with the dissident poet and essayist Kirill Medvedev about a new Russian left.

  • Emma Goldhammer
Arts in Society

The End of the Ceasefire (The End of the Objectivist School?)

  • Kirill Medvedev
Arts in Society

Against Conceptualism

Conceptualism aims to eliminiate affect from poetry. There are emotional and political consequences.

  • Calvin Bedient
Arts in Society

Celebrity Dream Poems

  • Noah Falck
Law Politics

Twelve Absent Men

Rebuilding the American Jury

  • Albert W. Dzur
Class & Inequality

Ages and Wages

Older Americans Are Earning More than Ever

  • Gary Burtless
Arts in Society

Mound

  • Christopher Phelps
Law Politics

The Syria Dilemma

This book focuses on the ethical and political dilemmas at the heart of the debate about Syria and the possibility of humanitarian intervention in today’s world.

  • Danny Postel
  • Nader Hashemi
Law

The Cost of Our Drone War in Pakistan

An interview with Ambassador Akbar Ahmed.

  • Wajahat Ali
Law Politics

Iran’s Olive Branch

What Rouhani’s presidential victory means for Iran-U.S. relations.

  • Akbar Ganji
Arts in Society

From the Keep

  • Cherry Pickman
Arts in Society

1776

  • Claire Sylvester Smith
Arts in Society

Rough Day

  • Ed Skoog
Arts in Society Race

The Varieties of Blackness

An interview with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

  • Aaron Bady
Arts in Society Race

Black in Time

Kiese Laymon's Novel Explores the Messy Complexity of Race in America

  • Lucy McKeon
Politics

The Republic of Choosing

Cass Sunstein's new book shows that "nudging" has its limits.

  • William H. Simon
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