The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.

The best guarantee on the professionalism, honesty, and effectiveness of its delivery is to let international journalists ...

The New Moral Mathematics In his new book, philosopher William MacAskill implies that humanity’s long-term survival matters more than preventing short-term suffering and death.

According to a familiar story, science was born as a pastime of seventeenth-century European gentlemen, who built air pumps, traded telescopes, and measured everything from the size of the earth to ...

In the mid-twentieth century, city governments, backed by federal money, demolished hundreds of Black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal.

April 13, 2023 This essay appears in print in Is Equal Opportunity Enough?. In June 2020 Donald Trump tweeted, in characteristically hyperbolic style, that his administration had “done more for the ...

They may seem the cornerstone of democracy, but in reality they do little to promote it. There’s a far better way to empower ordinary citizens: democracy by lottery.

On violence and the possibility of solidarities in America.

The celebration of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste reflects the continued priority of elite preferences over the needs and struggles of ordinary people.

The United States has never been “a nation of immigrants.” It has always been a settler state with a core of descendants from the original colonial settlers, that is, primarily Anglo-Saxons, Scots, ...

Michelle Obama’s memoir reduces racial inequality to a matter of psychological impairment.