This collection of essays by Sheila Jasanoff explores how democratic governments construct public reason, that is, the forms of evidence…
There will be no dramatic moment of closure on the era of Muhammad Hosni al-Sayyid Mubarak, the man who ruled and misruled Egypt for 30…
This is hardly a week when we need to be reminded that judges and, in particular, Supreme Court justices, have a profound impact on…
This article both reviews Manning Marable’s Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention and reflects more broadly upon Malcolm X’s political…
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Mass education is vital to sustainable development, particularly in the information age. In The Education of Nations, Stephen Kosack…
To what extent do migrants carry their culture with them, and to what extent do they acquire the culture of their new home? The answer not…
Patronage systems in the public service are universally reviled as undemocratic and corrupt. Yet patronage was the prevailing method of…
Human societies fashion themselves through rites of memory, gilding and illuminating
some pages of the past while consigning others to…