Naomi Oreskes is professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University. Her books include The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future and Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. Twitter @Naomi Oreskes
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Naomi Oreskes: Why Trust Science?
Why the social character of scientific knowledge is the reason why we can trust it Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate exper …
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Stephen Macedo & Yael Tamir: Moral and Political Education
What are the proper aims of education in a liberal democracy? Given the deep disagreement about moral and religious values in modern societies, what is the proper balance between public and private c …
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Ian Shapiro & Stephen Macedo: Designing Democratic Institutions
As the principles and practices of democracy continue to spread ever more widely, it is hard to imagine a corner of the globe into which they will not eventually penetrate. But the euphoria of democr …
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Charles Venegoni: Educating Citizens
The United States is in the midst of historic experiments with publicly funded choice in K-12 education, experiments that recently received a "green light" from the Supreme Court. Other nat …
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Stephen Macedo: Democracy at Risk
Voter turnout was unusually high in the 2004 U.S. presidential election. At first glance, that level of participationlargely spurred by war in Iraq and a burgeoning culture war at homemight look like …
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Michael W. Doyle: Striking First
Does the United States have the right to defend itself by striking first, or must it wait until an attack is in progress? Is the Bush Doctrine of aggressive preventive action a justified and legal re …
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Frans de Waal: Primates and Philosophers
Can virtuous behavior be explained by nature, and not by human rational choice? ‘It’s the animal in us, ‘ we often hear when we’ve been bad. But why not when we’re good? Primates and Philosophers tac …
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Susan Wolf: Meaning in Life and Why It Matters
A fresh reflection on what makes life meaningful Most people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-in …
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Jeffrey K. Tulis & Stephen Macedo: The Limits of Constitutional Democracy
Constitutional democracy is at once a flourishing idea filled with optimism and promise–and an enterprise fraught with limitations. Uncovering the reasons for this ambivalence, this book looks at th …
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Ian Morris: Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
The best-selling author of Why the West Rules—for Now examines the evolution and future of human values Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence …
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Stephen Macedo: Just Married
The case for marriage equality and monogamy in a democratic society The institution of marriage stands at a critical juncture. As gay marriage equality gains acceptance in law and public opinion, que …
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Ingrid Creppell & Stephen Macedo: Toleration on Trial
Toleration on Trial offers the only multidisciplinary study available on the issue of toleration, bringing together political psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, Islamic scholars, and politica …
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Stephen Macedo & Allen Buchanan: Secession and Self-Determination
The many questions that surround movements for secession and self-determination are both practically urgent and theoretically perplexing. The United States settled its secession crisis in the 1860s. …
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Stephen Macedo & Iris Marion Young: Child, Family and State
In an era in which our conception of what constitutes a “normal” family has undergone remarkable changes, questions have arisen regarding the role of the state in “normalizing” families through publi …
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Stephen Macedo: Deliberative Politics
The banner of deliberative democracy is attracting increasing numbers of supporters, in both the world’s older and newer democracies. This effort to renew democratic politics is widely seen as a reac …
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Michael W. McConnell: The President Who Would Not Be King
Vital perspectives for the divided Trump era on what the Constitution’s framers intended when they defined the extent—and limits—of presidential power One of the most vexing questions for the framers …
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Stephen Macedo: Deliberative Politics
The banner of deliberative democracy is attracting increasing numbers of supporters, in both the world’s older and newer democracies. This effort to renew democratic politics is widely seen as a reac …
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Richard Tuck: Active and Passive Citizens
A powerful case for why majority rule—not representation—is the defining feature of democratic politics The idea that democratic governance rests on active self-rule by citizens plays surprisingly li …
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Stephen Macedo: Diversity and Distrust
What should the aims of education policy be in the United States and other culturally diverse democracies? Should the foremost aim be to allow the flourishing of social and religious diversity? Or is …
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Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee: In Covid’s Wake
What our failures during the pandemic cost us, and why we must do better The Covid pandemic quickly led to the greatest mobilization of emergency powers in human history. By early April 2020, half th …
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