A trolley is heading down a slope with no working brakes. Five workers are working on the tracks ahead. If nothing is done, those five will be hit. However, you have a switch at hand; if you pull the ...

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Berggruen Institute today named political philosopher Michael Sandel as the 2025 Laureate of the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture. One of the ...

Harvard philosophy professor Michael Sandel says the bigger question about AI is deeper than taking your job or destroying ...

If the 2016 election felt like a polarizing set of choices for American voters, the upcoming election makes that one look almost benign. Never has American been more divided as we struggle through a ...

What has become of the common good? Political theorist Michael Sandel traces how meritocracy went from a satiric idea in the 1950s to a bedrock of American culture – and what we might have lost in its ...

Michael Sandel, the globally renowned scholar and the author of “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?” recalls watching from across the Pacific as Korean citizens, holding colorful lights in their ...

Michael Sandel '75, who is well known for his enganging oratory, was recently selected by the BBC to deliver its esteemed Reith Lectures for 2009. Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of ...

In 1640, in The Elements of Law: Natural and Politic, Thomas Hobbes mischievously observed that "a democracy, in effect, is no more than an aristocracy of orators." From silver-tongued statesmen to ...

Suppose Harvard were allowed to reopen tomorrow. Would it be ethical to allow a limited number of students to return, provided they tested virus-free and were willing to repeat the test daily? That ...

Political philosopher Michael Sandel—a Harvard professor whose popular course on “Justice” has reached tens of millions of people on television and online—will deliver a Presidential Colloquium on ...