Politics & Economics

Political social responsibility, as a supplement to corporate social responsibility and scientific social responsibility, is exactly what is needed in light of Brexit and the recent...

“I have moved in the world as a woman and a man. I never realized the absence of fear, and the feeling of invulnerability until I lived as a man.” These were activist Max Beck’s parting words to my...

Dear ---, There is a way forward, and I hope that you and your wife and your kids when they come of age stay and contribute to it. The way forward that I see is to make economic justice a central theme...

On the first day of classes, I give my students a notecard and a set of questions. It’s their chance to tell me privately if there is anything they’d like me to know. Mostly, they say things like “I...

BuzzFeed just published a piece demonstrating that post-factual tendencies in politics are alarming on the rise on hyperpartisan Facebook pages. Indeed, everybody is talking about post-truth democracy these...

It is very difficult to predict the future—if it was easy the list of the extremely nouveau riche would be headed by clairvoyants rather than entrepreneurs. But some things look remarkably prescient:...

Advocacy and debate are healthy dynamics of democracy. We need argument, but argument as practiced in our public forums is often dangerously irrational. Watching the presidential debates, I’ve come to the...