MIT Media Lab, Building E14, 3rd Floor Atrium, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
A multidisciplinary event to fix the systemic, legal corruption that is weakening our public institutions around the world. Organized by the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University and the MIT Center for Civic Media. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
Cosponsored with the Government Accountability Project and the Center for Public Interest Careers at Harvard College
Over the past several years, the American media have sharply increased their coverage of scandals that have been brought to light by whistleblowers, including NSA spying, banking fraud, contaminated food, and nuclear safety risks. There has never been a more important time to learn about the important role whistleblowers play in promoting accountability and to understand the challenges they face when disclosing wrongdoing and threats to the public interest.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200N
The topic of moral competence is generally neglected in the study of public management and policy, yet it is critical to any hope we might have for strengthening the quality of governance and professional practice. What does moral competence consist in? How is it developed and sustained? These questions are addressed in this book through close examination of selected practitioners in Asian countries making life-defining decisions in their work. The protagonists include a doctor in Singapore, a political activist in India, a mid-level bureaucrat in central Asia, a religious missionary in...
"Some disability activists argue that disability is merely a difference. It is often objected that this view has unacceptable implications, implying, for example, that it's permissible to cause disability.... Read more about Julian Savulescu, "Disability and Mere Difference"
Jiwei Ci: "Far from merely a regime type, modern democracy is a set of interlocking and partly conflicting values and practices and yet behind all this complexity can be detected a general stance of amazing coherence.... Read more about Jiwei Ci, "Modern Democracy as Agnostic Egalitarianism"
Watch "The Women Sheriffs of Wall Street" live! Click here.
The Project on Public Narrative Presents: The Women Sheriffs of Wall Street, a roundtable discussion with the key players in financial reform and regulation before, during, and after the Great Recession of 2007-8: Sheila Bair, former FDIC chairwoman; Mary Schapiro, former SEC chairwoman; and Elizabeth Warren, current Massachusetts Senator and the chief architect of the Consumer Financial Protection...
“No Slippery Slopes: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy, and the Future of Marriage”
Will same-sex marriage lead to more radical marriage reform? Should it? Conservatives warn of a slippery slope from same-sex marriage toward polygamy, adult incest, and the dissolution of marriage as we know it; many progressives embrace these changes. I argue that both sides are wrong: the same principles of democratic justice that demand marriage equality for same sex couples also lend support to monogamous marriage. I explore the meaning of contemporary marriage and the reasons for both its fragility and...
