Stanford Ethics Center

Matters of Choice

Scholar and retired Army officer Andrew Bacevich on the U.S. war for the Greater Middle East

  • Andrew J. Bacevich
  • Stephen Kinzer

Saving Privacy

Framing surveillance as a tradeoff between privacy and security is a dead end for democracy.

  • Reed Hundt
with responses from
  • Richard M. Stallman
  • Marvin Ammori & Adam Kern
  • Archon Fung
  • Rebecca MacKinnon
  • Jennifer Granick
  • Frank Pasquale
  • Jeremy K. Kessler
  • Bruce Schneier
  • Evgeny Morozov

Our Collaboration with the Stanford Ethics Center

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.

  • Deborah Chasman

What Are Foundations For?

Philanthropic institutions are plutocratic by nature. Can they be justified in a democracy?

  • Rob Reich
with responses from
  • Christopher J. Coyne
  • Stanley N. Katz
  • Diane Ravitch
  • Deborah Fung
  • Paul Brest
  • Rick Cohen
  • Tyler Cowen
  • Seana Valentine Shiffrin
  • Pablo Eisenberg
  • Larry Kramer
  • Eric Beerbohm
  • Robert K. Ross
  • Gara LaMarche
  • Emma Saunders-Hastings

Lives of the Moral Saints

An Interview with Larissa MacFarquhar

  • David V. Johnson

Taxing Away Inequality

A Conversation with Emmanuel Saez

  • David B. Grusky
  • Emmanuel Saez

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An Embarrassment of Riches

Literature and the Ethics of Wealth in the Gilded Age

  • Gavin Jones

Before Greed

Americans Didn’t Always Yearn for Riches

  • Richard White

Occupy the Future

A series of essays exploring key issues raised by the Occupy Wall Street movement.

  • Boston Review
with responses from
  • Rob Reich & Debra Satz
  • David D. Laitin
  • Kenneth Arrow
  • Sean F. Reardon
  • Paul R. Ehrlich & Anne H. Ehrlich
  • Prudence L. Carter
  • David Palumbo-Liu
  • Michele Elam & Jennifer DeVere Brody
  • David B. Grusky
  • Cristobal Young
  • Gary Segura
  • Frances Zlotnick
  • Doug McAdam
  • Doug McAdam
  • Donald A. Barr
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