Harvard Book Store's virtual event series and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University welcome MICHAEL IGNATIEFF—the author of Scar Tissue, Fire and Ashes, and The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World—for a discussion of his latest book, On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times. He will be joined in conversation by ARTHUR ISAK APPLBAUM, the Adams Professor of Democratic Values at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and author of Legitimacy: The Right to Rule in a Wanton World....
The annual conference of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, on Civic Education in Polarized Times, will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar on October 29-30, 2021.
Myisha Cherry will discuss her new book, The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle, in conversation with Jason Reynolds.
Myisha Cherry is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. Her research is primarily concerned with the role of emotions and attitudes in public life. Cherry’s books include UnMuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justic" (Oxford University Press) and, co-edited with Owen Flanagan, The Moral Psychology of Anger (...
How much can a democracy demand of its citizens? Is it ever permissible to force people to act to support the public good? Much contemporary discourse holds that participation is a matter of private choice. Yet serious attempts to deal...
The second event in our series, co-sponsored with the Harvard Gloabl Health Institute, will consider prison depopulation or decarceration in response to the threat of COVID-19 in places of incarceration. In response to the growing number of COVID-19 outbreaks in these facilities, public health experts, civil rights attorneys, and advocacy groups have made urgent appeals for decarceration. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, prison decongestion measures have been adopted in over 100 countries world wide. However, decarceration and prison depopulation isn’t straightforward. It...
As efforts mount to return to "normal," COVID-19 immunity certification programs have been floated as a way to safely get people back to work, school, and social activities. Israel has implemented a "green pass" that...