If you had to choose between (1) killing one person to save the lives of five others and (2) doing nothing even though you knew that five people would die right before your eyes if you did ...

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 ...

Michael Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard University. His books — on justice, democracy, ethics, meritocracy, and markets — have been translated into more than 30 languages. He has been ...

Michael Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, yesterday evening entertained an over−capacity Tufts crowd with a discussion of the meaning of justice in ...

This course will take place in person at 60 Turner Street. The room will be equipped with a HEPA air purifier. We all find ourselves in situations where we wonder, “What is the right thing to do?” ...

In October 2008, then-President George Bush asked Congress for $700 billion to bail out the nation's big banks and financial firms (Michael Sandel, "Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?"). The ...

Should celebrities and sports stars be paid more than service workers? Is fair pay determined by supply and demand? In this excerpt from the BBC program "Fairness and the Big Society," Sandel uses the ...