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2012
“The Election,” New York Review of Books November 8, 2012 Volume LIX, Number 17, 52. read the article »
“We’re Still Puzzled, New York Review of Books November 8 2012, Volume LIX, Number 17, 68-70. read the article »
2011
“Battling with Du Bois,” The New York Review of Books, Thursday, December 8, 2011 read the article
“Grading Obama,” The Root, Thursday, November 17, 2011 read the article »
“The Apple Fell Far from the Tree,” The New York Review of Books, Thursday, May 12, 2011 read the article »
“The First Liberal,” Slate, Friday, March 11, 2011 read the article »
2010
“Religious Faith and John Rawls,” The New York Review of Books, Thurday, December 9, 2010 read the article »
“The Art of Social Change,” The New York Times Sunday Magazine,” Sunday, October 24, 2010
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“Kwame Anthony Appiah on Honour,” The Daily Telegraph, London, Friday, October 15 2010
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“Philippa Foot,” in Time Magazine, Monday October 25 2010
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“Why I nominated Liu Xiaobo,” in Foreign Policy, Friday October 10 2010
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“China’s Burden of Shame,” in Foreign Policy, Friday October 10 2010
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“The Multicultural Mirage,” in the Toronto Globe and Mail, Commentary, Wednesday October 6, 2010
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“Science Knows Best,” in the New York Times Book Review, reviewing Sam Harris “The Moral Landscape,” October 3, 2010
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“What will future generations condemn us for?” in The Washington Post, Outlook section, September 26, 2010
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“Best Weapon Against Honor Killers: Shame,” in The Wall Streeet Journal, Life and Style, September 25, 2010
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“Malthusian Madness,” in Slate Magazine, September 23 2010
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“My Daily Read,” in the Chronicle of Higher Education, September 21 2010read the story »
2009
An Op-Ed in the Washington Post about attacks on the media in Russia.
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A review in Slate Magazine of Alan Wolfe’s “The Future of Liberalism.”
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2008
A short piece in the New York Times Magazine about the Epiphany Philosophers.
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An Op-Ed on fairness and taxes for the Washington Post on April 15th
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“Llegó la hora del cosmopolitismo” in El País, Madrid, January 10 2008 (Español)
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“Ser ciudadanos del mundo” in La Nacion, Buenos Aires, February 23, 2008 (Español) read the story »
2007 & earlier
“The new new philosophy” in The New York Times Magazine December 9 2007 read the story »
“A Slow Emancipation” in The New York Times Magazine March 18 2007 read the story »
“What Was Africa to Them?” in The New York Review of Books September 27 2007 read the story »
“The Case for Contamination” in The New York Times Magazine January 1 2006 read the story »
“Whose Culture Is It?” in The New York Review of Books Feb 9 2006 read the story »
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