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Development as Freedom, a Reading Room essay

On Development as Freedom

Michael Fowler

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

Michael Fowler

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...

A Theory of Justice, a Reading Room essay

On A Theory of Justice

Michael Fowler

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

Michael Fowler

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...

Our Declaration, a Reading Room essay

On Our Declaration

Michael Fowler

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

Michael Fowler

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...

The Constitution of the United States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery?, a Reading Room essay

On The Constitution of the United States: Is It...

Michael Fowler

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...

Michael Fowler

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...