In Praise of Radical Liberalism

Meaning in Life and Why It Matters Lectures I & II

Susan Wolf is the Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She graduated from Yale with a degree in math and philosophy and went on to Princeton where she received her Ph.D. She has taught at Harvard, the University of Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University. She […]

Goodness and Advice

Judith Jarvis Thomson is professor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was educated at Barnard College and at Cambridge University, and she received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has also been a fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study, […]

Welfare and Work

ROBERT M. SOLOW is Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been a professor of economics since 1949. He studied at Harvard University and received his Ph.D. there in 1951. He served for many years as a member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston […]

Common-Law Courts in aCivil-Law System: The Role of United States Federal Courts in Interpreting the Constitution and Laws

ANTONIN SCALIA is an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was educated at Georgetown University and the University of Fribourg, and received his law degree from Harvard University, where he was the note editor for the Harvard Law Review.

American Grace

Robert Putnam is Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, British Academy, American Philosophical Society, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences and past president of the American Political Science Association. He was the 2006 recipient of the Skytte Prize and has served as an […]

American Culture and the Voice of Poetry

Robert Pinsky is a poet and professor of English at Boston University. He was educated at Rutgers and at Stanford, where he received his Ph.D. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Shelley […]

Decisions of Principle, Principles of Decision

ROBERT NOZICK, currently Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University and past Chairperson of the Philosophy Department, was educated at Columbia College and Princeton University. He is a member of the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Senior Fellow […]

Truthfulness, Lies, and Moral Philosophers: What Can We Learn from Mill and Kant?

ALASDAIR MACINTYRE is an Arts and Sciences Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He was educated at Queen Mary College, University of London, and at the University of Manchester. He taught at various British universities, including Oxford and Essex, until 1970.

I. Human Rights as Politics II. Human Rights as Idolatry

Michael Ignatieff is a London-based commentator with the BBC and CBC. He was educated in Canada at Upper Canada College and Trinity College, Toronto, and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has been a fellow at King’s College, Cambridge; École des Hautes Études, Paris; and St. Antony’s College, Oxford; and Visiting Carr Professor of […]