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Nation and Universe
MICHAEL WALZER received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1961. He has taught at Princeton and Harvard Universities and is currently a a professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ). His books include Just and Unjust Wars (1977), Spheres of Justice (1984), Exodus and Revolution (1986), lnterpretation […]
Representative Democracy and Democratic Citizens: Philosophical and Empirical Understandings
Sidney Verba is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and professor of government at Harvard University, as well as director of the Harvard University Library. He was educated at Harvard College and at Princeton University, where he received his Ph.D. In 1993 he was awarded the James Madison Award by the American Political Science Association (APSA) […]
The Constitution in Crisis: From Bush v. Gore to the War on Terrorism
LAURENCE H. TRIBE is Ralph S. Tyler Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard University. He was educated at Harvard and received a J.D. from the Harvard Law School. He clerked for Justice Tobriner (California Supreme Court) and Justice Stewart (United States Supreme Court). He was named by Time Magazine as one of the nation’s […]
Who Needs Parables?
JANET SUZMAN was trained at LAMDA and is an honorary associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her work there has included The Wars of the Roses, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Merchant of Venice, The Relapse, and in 1980, John Barton’s The […]
Law and Culture — A European Setting
LORD SLYNN OF HADLEY (GORDON SLYNN), a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary since 1992, was educated at Goldsmiths’ College and at Trinity College, Cambridge. Following service in the Royal Air Force from 1951 to 1954, he was called to the Bar in 1956.
The Dynamics of Reform and Revolt in Current South Africa
FREDERIK VAN ZYL SLABBERT was born in Pretoria, South Africa, and completed his undergraduate and graduate work at Stellenbosch University. He has written widely in academic journals and co-authored two books, one with Professor David Welsh, South Africa’s Option: Strategies for Sharing Power, and, with Professor J. Opland, South Africa: Dilemma of Evolutionary Change.
From Moral Neutrality to Effective Altruism: The Changing Scope and Significance of Moral Philosophy
Peter Singer is often described as the world’s most influential living philosopher. In 2005 Time magazine named him one of the one hundred most influential people in the world, and in 2014 he was third on the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute’s ranking of Global Thought Leaders. He is known especially for his work on the ethics […]
The Significance of Choice
T. M. SCANLON is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. He was educated at Princeton, Brasenose College, Oxford, and Harvard, and taught philosophy at Princeton from 1966 until 1984. Professor Scanlon is the author of a number of articles in moral and political philosophy and was one of the founding editors of Philosophy and Public […]
What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
Michael J. Sandel is a professor of government at Harvard University, where he has taught political philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1980. He was educated at Brandeis University and received his Ph.D. from Balliol College, Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.