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American Individualism and Societal Values

June 21, 2012

A Summer With Virgil

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Image credit: Barbara Kelley
From Homer’s Iliad to Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War, these five classics make for sublime and delightful beach reading.
June 19, 2012

Psychology vs. Public Policy

Why do moral intuitions break down in complex social institutions?
June 14, 2012

Why We Can't All Just Get Along

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A review of Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion.
May 24, 2012

America's Problem of Assimilation

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Image credit: Barbara Kelley
Are we a melting pot or a salad bowl?
April 26, 2012

Race and Violence, the European Way

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For every Sanford, Fla., there’s an Amsterdam, Utoya, Zwickau & Toulouse.
April 23, 2012

The Pollution Solution

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Image credit: Barbara Kelley
Save the environment, one property right at a time.
April 11, 2012

Modern Hero Worship

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Our egalitarian society distrusts claims of greatness and heroism.
April 6, 2012

The Arab Spring: What We Know Now

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One year later, much of the conventional wisdom about the uprisings has been proven wrong. By Fouad Ajami.

April 6, 2012

On the Cesium Road

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Japanese feel angry and ignored, prisoners of both radiation and bureaucracy. By Toshio Nishi.

April 6, 2012

A Boot Camp for Citizenship

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Civics education must not be indoctrination, but it also must not be overlooked. By Peter Berkowitz.