There’s no better writer on the lives and ideas of intellectuals than the New Yorker’s Larissa MacFarquhar. Her profiles, frequently of academics, and often of philosophers, are always good reading. As someone who opens the New Yorker and thrills to a MacFarquhar profile as most do to an Anthony Lane review, I’m excited that MacFarquhar [...]
Categories: Ethics in Society,Event,Stanford
Ten years ago David Brooks wrote a provocative piece, in his trademark comic sociology genre, about the lives of undergraduates at elite universities. It was called The Organization Kid, and it portrayed the average Princeton/Yale/Harvard/Stanford student as extremely bright and morally earnest but ultimately rather uninspired and herd-like conformists. Meritocratic hoop-jumpers. It’s a piece that [...]
Categories: Ethics in Society,Event
The Center for Ethics in Society is sponsoring a great event in early April. We will offer a free screening of the Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job. And then director Charles Ferguson will come to campus the following night to join a panel of Stanford scholars to discuss the issues raised in the film about the [...]
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Wendy Kopp, the founder and CEO of Teach For America, will be visiting campus tomorrow, Wednesday, Jan. 11. She’ll be delivering a lecture as part of the BASES program on social entrepreneurship. And she’s doing an event, in conversation with me, at 3pm, co-sponsored by the Program on Ethics in Society and the Center on [...]
Categories: Ethics in Society,Event,PACS
With the start of the fall quarter at Stanford we’re about to begin another year of the Political Theory Workshop. Once again Josh Cohen and I are organizing and hosting the workshop. And once again the workshop will be co-sponsored frequently by the Program on Global Justice. The workshop meets 1:15 – 3:00pm on Fridays. [...]
Stanford University is one of nine universities to host an annual Tanner Lecture. These are named after Obert Clark Tanner, a scholar and industrialist, who endowed the lecture series to stimulate reflection on scholarly and scientific learning related to human values. The list of people who have delivered Tanner Lectures is a who’s who of [...]
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The PACS Center will host on Thursday, March 4 an interesting event: Philanthropy in the 21st Century: How Foundations Can Advance the Public Good. 5:00 – 6:30pm Stanford Humanities Center Levinthal Hall Sterling Speirn, the President and CEO of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (yes, the folks who make your breakfast cereal), will deliver the main [...]
Professor Larry Lessig, formerly at Stanford and now at Harvard (directing the Center on Ethics there) visited Stanford this past week to give a talk on Institutional Corruption. A well-timed topic, coming as it did just a day before the Citizens United decision. The talk was a Wesson Lecture, sponsored by the Center on Ethics [...]
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