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Tag: McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University

Danielle Allen

Preparation for democratic citizenship demands humanities education, not just STEM.

Stephen Kinzer, Andrew J. Bacevich

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

Rob Reich

School reform is failing America's children.

Peter Singer

A minimally acceptable ethical life involves using a substantial part of one’s spare resources to make the world a better place.

Hyunseop Kim, Blake Francis, Mark Budolfson, Debra Satz
 Ethicists, economists, and others have developed a set of useful tools for deciding what to do when economic, environmental, and social values conflict. 
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?

Elizabeth Anderson

Elizabeth Anderson visits Stanford's Center for Ethics in Society to discuss objections to slavery and their implications for our understanding of equality.

Anthony Atkinson

In his Arrow Lecture, Anthony Atkinson asks what can be learned from historical experience and from economic models of the generation of inequality.

David Hollinger, Joshua Cohen, Elizabeth Anderson

Elizabeth Anderson discusses her Wesson Lecture on slavery, emancipation and equality with BR Co-Editor Joshua Cohen and historian David Hollinger.

Barbara H. Fried

The philosophy of personal responsibility has ruined criminal justice and economic policy. It's time to move past blame.

Deborah Chasman

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.

Rob Reich

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

Rob Reich
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.
David V. Johnson

An Interview with Larissa MacFarquhar on extreme moral virtue.

Emmanuel Saez, David B. Grusky

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

Gavin Jones

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

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

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.

Richard White

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

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