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Frances Kamm Explores Moral Reasoning in a Pandemic

July 27, 2020

Frances Kamm, Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University and longtime friend of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, argues that policy analysts and decision-makers need to rethink deaths resulting from COVID-19 in a new piece in the Boston Review, Moral Reasoning in a Pandemic: Three things we need to get right. Find the piece here. Read more about Frances Kamm Explores Moral Reasoning in a Pandemic

Arthur Applbaum Discusses His New Book in the Irish Times

July 8, 2020

Professor Arthur Applbaum, Director of the Center's Undergraduate Fellowship Program, is featured in a recent piece in the Irish Times. Applbaum spoke with the Irish Times about his new book, Legitimacy: The Right to Rule in a Wanton World, and "the moral right to rule." You can find the piece here. Read more about Arthur Applbaum Discusses His New Book in the Irish Times

The Path to Zero: Researchers and Public Health Experts Unite to Bring Clarity to Key Metrics Guiding Coronavirus Response

July 1, 2020

Harvard Global Health Institute, Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Rockefeller Foundation, CovidActNow, Covid-Local, CIDRAP and many others join forces, launch new COVID Risk Level map and COVID suppression guidance for policy makers and the public

Uncertainty is the currency of pandemics. As evidence on the new coronavirus, how it spreads and who...

Danielle Allen Awarded the Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity by the Library of Congress

June 22, 2020

Allen will Work with the Library to Share Expertise on Justice, Citizenship and Democracy with a Wide Audience

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New Report from the Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship

June 11, 2020

Reinvent American Democracy for the 21^st Century
Responding to a Nation in Crisis

Today, a nationwide bipartisan Commission, convened by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences,...

New Book of Poetry by Zoë Hitzig

June 5, 2020

Zoë Hitzig's poetry book, Mezzanine: Poems, is now available for pre-order. The book will be published next week on June 9th.

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In her striking collection of poems, Zoë Hitzig investigates how we seek certitude, power, and domination over the natural world and one another. Hitzig brings a scientific rigor to her searing lyricism, as well as a raucous energy and willingness to allow...

Six Harvard University Human Rights Centers Condemn Recent Police Violence in the United States

June 1, 2020

The following is a joint statement from the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, and International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School.

“We strongly condemn the Minneapolis Police Department’s vicious and brutal murder of George Floyd. This and other recent events highlight the lethal impact of the...

Cora True-Frost Named Bond, Schoeneck & King Distinguished Professor

May 27, 2020

Cora True-Frost, Graduate Fellow 2006-07, has been named the Bond, Schoeneck & King Distinguished Professor for the academic years 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 at the School of Law at Syracuse University. The professorship recognizes a faculty member who exhibits distinction in the areas of teaching and scholarship.

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Statement in Response to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ REPORT TO CONGRESS on its COVID-19 Strategic Testing Plan

May 26, 2020

By Danielle Allen and authors of the “Testing Millions” white paper, E. Glen Weyl and Divya Siddarth; all are co-authors on the Edmond J. Safra Center’s “Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience” and the Center’s supplementary report, “Pandemic Resilience: Getting It Done.”

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued a REPORT TO CONGRESS on its COVID-19 Strategic Testing Plan dated May 24, 2020. That report cites our work,...

Do We Have Reasons to Obey the Law? Ask Tweedy Flanigan.

May 20, 2020

Graduate Fellow Tweedy Flanigan has a new publication in the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. You can read the full paper, "Do We Have Reasons to Obey the Law," here. Read more about Do We Have Reasons to Obey the Law? Ask Tweedy Flanigan.