Philosophy

Mothers Who Care Too Much

Stay-at-home mothering is bad for mothers, their kids, and women’s equality.

  • Nancy J. Hirschmann
with responses from
  • Shannon Hayes
  • Robin West
  • Lisa Dodson
  • Melody Berger
  • Ann Friedman
  • Mona Harrington
  • Lane Kenworthy
  • Anne L. Alstott

Sharing Liberally

The main argument of Cognitive Surplus rests on a striking analogy. 

  • Evgeny Morozov

Ending the Endless War

Will Colombia’s democracy survive the violence?

  • Luis Fernando Medina

The Case of Carter

When rehabilitation fails

  • Daphna Nachminovitch

What Does That Server Really Serve?

How programs like Google Docs rob users of their freedom.

  • Richard M. Stallman

Right By Others

On the theory and practice of justice.

  • Vivian Gornick

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Misunderstanding Darwin

Natural selection’s secular critics get it wrong.

  • Ned Block
  • Philip Kitcher

Dead Dogs

Breed bans, euthanasia, and preemptive justice

  • Colin Dayan

Know-How

H.L. Hix: Philosopher-Poet

  • Troy Jollimore

Biography and the Bench

Albie Sachs’s The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law

  • Ryan Thoreson

The Lost Radical

Edward Carpenter’s democracy of the soul.

  • Vivian Gornick

Crisis and Hope

Theirs and ours.

  • Noam Chomsky

United By Hate

The uses of anti-Semitism in Chávez’s Venezuela.

  • Claudio Lomnitz
  • Rafael Sánchez

Land of My Dreams

Islamic liberalism under fire in India.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

A Response to David Mikhail’s Sleepwalker

We must focus on the laws that continue to put so many noncitizens— including legal residents —into detention and deportation proceedings.

  • Mark Dow

Against Cyber-Utopianism

Reflections on information technology and democracy. 

  • Joshua Cohen

Sleepwalker

Forgetting Shakir Baloch

  • David Mikhail

Private Arrangements

“Recognizing sharia” in England

  • John R. Bowen

Texting Toward Utopia

Does the Internet spread democracy?

  • Evgeny Morozov

Always at the After Party

Liberals and Libertarians: Kissing Cousins or Distant Relatives?

  • Joshua Cohen

Consensus History

In response to Sanford Levinson’s critique of Constitutional Conventions.

  • William Hogeland

History Matters, But So Does Politics

A response to William Hogeland’s “Constitutional Conventions.”

  • Sanford Levinson

God

Philosophers weigh in.

  • Alex Byrne

Constitutional Conventions

Public history should make us think.

  • William Hogeland
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