The din and deadlock of public life in America--where insults are traded, slogans proclaimed, and self-serving deals made and unmade--reveal the deep disagreement that pervades our democracy. The disagreement is not only political but also moral, as citizens and their representatives increasingly ta[...]

In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice - whether through 'color-blind' policies or through affirmative action - provokes more noisy name-calling than fruitful deliberation. In "Color Conscious", K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, two eminent moral and political philosophers, seek [...]

We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a judge like this can maneuver through earlier cases to achieve the desired aim - 'distinguishing one prior case on [...]