Imagining Beyond The Artificial Intelligentsia

I. Politics and Polarization II. Religion and Polarization

James Q. Wilson is a Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. He was educated at the University of Redlands and received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He taught at Harvard University, where he was the Shattuck Professor of Government, and at UCLA, where he was the James Collins Professor of […]

Interpretation and Social Criticism

MICHAEL WALZER is many things — a political activist; an editor, along with Irving Howe, of Dissent magazine; a former professor at Harvard and Princeton universities, and now a member of the permanent faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. Michael Walzer was born in New York City, attended Brandeis, Cambridge, and […]

Political Conflict and Legal Agreement

CASS R. SUNSTEIN is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago. He was educated at Harvard University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was executive editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. He worked as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall […]

Family Values in a Historical Perspective

LAWRENCE STONE was born in England and educated at Oxford University. His education was interrupted for five years while he served as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy during World War II. Following the war he was first a lecturer at Corpus Christi and University Colleges and, after 1950, a fellow of Wadham College.

Economics or Ethics?

GEORGE J. STIGLER was educated at the University of Washington, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago. He has taught at a number of institutions, among them the University of Minnesota, Brown University, and Columbia University, and he has lectured at the London School of Economics. He has served in many capacities as a public […]

The Paradoxes of Political Liberty

QUENTIN SKINNER is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christís College. He was born in 1940 and educated at Gondle and Caius College, Cambridge, where he earned his history degree in 1962. In 1974-75, and again between 1976 and 1979, he was a Member of the Institute […]

Four Domestications: Fire, Plants, Animals, and . . . Us

James Scott, PhD, Yale University, 1967, is the Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology at Yale University and is the director of the Agrarian Studies Program. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral […]

The Ethics of Biosocial Science Lecture I: The Old Biosocial and the Legacy of the Unethical Science Lecture II: The New Biosocial and the Ethical Future of Science

Dorothy Roberts is the fourteenth Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor and George A. Weiss University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with joint appointments in the departments of Africana studies and sociology, and in the Law School, where she holds the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander chair. She currently serves on the board of […]

Representative Democracy: The Constitutional Theory of Campaign Finance Reform

Robert Post is Dean and Sol and Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Before coming to Yale, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall). Dean Post’s subject areas are constitutional law, First Amendment, legal history, and equal protection. He has written and edited numerous books, including Democracy, Expertise, […]