Deb Chasman, 2018-19 Fellow-in-Residence and Editor-in-Chief of Boston Review, conducted a fascinating interview with Merve Emre on personality tests like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. In their conversation, they explore "what the test really measures and what it misses, how it has come to function as a form of divination and therapy in an age of secular alienation, and why its claims of innateness are at odds with richer understandings of personality and character."

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Emanuela Ceva, our visiting Fulbright Scholar in the spring of 2018, has a new article in the Journal of Political Philosophy. The article, "Personal Trust, Public Accountability, and the Justification of Whistleblowing," co-written by Michele Bocchiola, was partially written during Emanuela's time at the Center. 

You can find the full article here. 

From the first moment they saw it three years ago, Emily Sneff and Danielle Allen suspected that the ...

Faculty Associate Martha Minow, the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School, a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, and former Dean of Harvard Law School, has been named a University Professor. This is the University's highest faculty honor. 

Minow has twice served as Acting Director of the Center, during the academic years 1993-94 and 2000-01, while Professor Dennis F. Thompson was on sabbatical leave. Additionally, Minow was Senior Scholar in Ethics in 1991-92 and was a charter member of the Faculty Committee, serving in...