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

School reform is failing America's children.

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

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

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

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.

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

An Interview with Larissa MacFarquhar on extreme moral virtue.

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

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

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.

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