Philosophy

The Mourner’s Hope

Martha Nussbaum’s bat mitzvah talk, on grief and the foundations of justice.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

Obama’s Bolt from the Blue

. By restricting religious hiring rights, Obama’s faith-based initiative attacks the very thing it claims to be supporting. 

  • Lew Daly

American Dreamers

Pete Seeger, William F. Buckley, Jr., and public history.

  • William Hogeland

The Best of All Games

Philosopher John Rawls on the delights of baseball.

  • John Rawls

Words Behind Bars

Do prisoners have a right to read what they want?

  • Colin Dayan

The Curse of Modernity

Philip Rieff’s problem with freedom.

  • George Scialabba

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In the Sweep of History

Where realists and progressives can meet.

  • Anatol Lieven

Whole Sight

On artistic passion.

  • Charles Johnson

In Search of the Common Good

The Catholic roots of American Liberalism

  • Lew Daly

Knowing Right and Wrong

Is Morality a Natural Phenomenon?

  • Alex Byrne

Inside the Machine

Toward a new development economics.

  • Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee

Bloggers and Parties

Can the netroots reshape American democracy?

  • Henry Farrell

The Forbidden Experiment

What can we learn from the wild child?

  • Rebecca Saxe

What Mind–Body Problem?

Understanding consciousness may be easier than we thought.

  • Alex Byrne

The Brotherhood

How far will Egypt’s Islamists go? 

  • Stephen Glain

Job’s Hope

On not knowing God.

  • Ben-Zion Gold

Freedom Reigns

But it isn't enough.

  • Nick Bromell

The Citizens of Porto Alegre

Participatory budgeting has become a school of democracy in Brazil.

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Learning from Athens

Success by design.

  • Josiah Ober

Ending Polarization

The good news about the culture wars

  • John Gastil
  • Dan M. Kahan
  • Donald Braman

France’s Revolt

Can the Republic live up to its ideals?

  • John R. Bowen

Knowing Our Minds

Why some philosophers say we can’t.

  • Alex Byrne

Do the Right Thing

Cognitive science’s search for a common morality.

  • Rebecca Saxe

On Belonging

What we owe people who stay.

  • Joseph H. Carens
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