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The United States will lose the war for control of the Middle East.
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Framing surveillance as a tradeoff between privacy and security is a dead end for democracy.
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.
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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.
There was a time when Americans valued "competency" over riches and saw wealth as the cause of poverty.
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Opinion essays by Stanford University professors exploring key issues raised by Occupy.
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