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The Tyranny of Merit
A critique of meritocracy, written after Brexit and Donald Trump's 2016 election and opening with the 2019 American college admissions scandal. Sandel argues that the ideal of a…
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Private Government
A short book based on Anderson's Tanner Lectures of 2015, with four commentaries and her reply. Anderson argues that most workers live under 'private government': employers hold wide,…
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Against Democracy
A provocative argument that democracy has no intrinsic value and should be judged by its results, and that some form of epistocracy, rule by the knowledgeable, might do…
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Elite Capture
A short book that grew out of essays on identity politics and standpoint epistemology. Táíwò takes the term 'elite capture' from the study of development, where it describes…
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This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
An ambitious two-part argument for a fully secular understanding of what makes life meaningful, with political consequences. Part One, 'Secular Faith', argues that we can care about things…
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The Virtue of Selfishness
A collection of essays setting out the ethics of Objectivism, the philosophy Ayn Rand had dramatised in her novels, some by her then associate Nathaniel Branden. She uses…
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In Praise of Idleness
A collection of fifteen essays on work, politics, education and ideas, published in 1935 in the shadow of the Depression and the rise of fascism. The title essay,…
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The Enfranchisement of Women
An essay published in the Westminster Review in July 1851, prompted by the women's rights convention held at Worcester, Massachusetts, in October 1850. It first reports the convention's…
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Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen
A pamphlet published in Paris in September 1791 by a playwright and political writer, answering the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789,…
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Justice Interruptus
A collection of essays, subtitled Critical Reflections on the "Postsocialist" Condition, written as the end of the Cold War seemed to leave the left without a clear programme.…
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