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Politics & Social Sciences
Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the... See More
W. E. B. Du Bois never felt so at home as when he was a student at the University of Berlin. But Du Bois was also American to his core, scarred but not crippled by the racial humiliations of his homeland. In Lines of... See More
Politics & Social SciencesIf "slavery" is defined broadly to include bonded child labor and forced prostitution, there are upward of 25 million slaves in the world today. Individuals and groups are freeing some slaves by buying them from their... See More
Thinking it Through is a thorough, vividly written introduction to contemporary philosophy and some of the most crucial questions of human existence, including the nature of mind and knowledge, the status of moral claims... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
"Appiah is a writer and thinker of remarkable range... [He] has packed into this short book an impressive amount of original reflection... A rich and illuminating book." -- Thomas Nagel, New York Review of... See More
History
The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of... See More
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... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
"[Appiah's] work reveals the heart and sensitivity of a novelist... Fascinating, erudite and beautifully written." -- The New York Times Book Review In this groundbreaking work, Kwame Anthony Appiah, hailed as "one of the... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
"A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age." -- Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, including history, literature, and philosophy -- as well as the author's... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year As seen on the Netflix series Explained From the best-selling author of Cosmopolitanism comes this revealing exploration of how the collective identities that shape our polarized... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
In the past few decades, scientists of human nature -- including experimental and cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, evolutionary theorists, and behavioral economists -- have explored the way we arrive at moral... See More
Politics & Social SciencesDædalus was founded in 1955 as the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It draws on the enormous intellectual capacity of the American Academy, whose members are among the nation's most prominent thinkers... See More
United States
The nation-state is so dominant today that it seems natural. But no political arrangements are natural, and any concept with a hyphen has a fault line running through it by definition. States are sovereign political... See More