The Reading Room
On Development as Freedom
Amartya Sen, an economist and philosopher who won the Nobel Prize, used Development as Freedom, published in 1999, to overturn the way the world had been thinking about development, and...
On Development as Freedom
Amartya Sen, an economist and philosopher who won the Nobel Prize, used Development as Freedom, published in 1999, to overturn the way the world had been thinking about development, and...
On A Theory of Justice
John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, published in 1971, revived political philosophy as a serious discipline almost single-handedly and remains the most important work of political theory of the twentieth...
On A Theory of Justice
John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, published in 1971, revived political philosophy as a serious discipline almost single-handedly and remains the most important work of political theory of the twentieth...
On Our Declaration
Danielle Allen did something with the Declaration of Independence that almost no one attempts: she read it slowly, word by word, all the way through, and discovered that the document...
On Our Declaration
Danielle Allen did something with the Declaration of Independence that almost no one attempts: she read it slowly, word by word, all the way through, and discovered that the document...
On The Constitution of the United States: Is It...
The Hundred closes where it began, with the founding documents, but seen now through the eyes of a man who had been enslaved under them and who refused to let...
On The Constitution of the United States: Is It...
The Hundred closes where it began, with the founding documents, but seen now through the eyes of a man who had been enslaved under them and who refused to let...