The Year of PikettyDemocracy Under Threat for 250 YearsThomas Piketty raised the Big Questions this year about democracy and inequality. Some students and I went looking for answers. Jedediah Purdy
BLOOD ON THEIR HANDSThe Media's Pro-Torture CheerleadersThe American people didn’t demand that we torture detainees and embark on permanent war after 9/11. Our politicians and pundits did. Jedediah Purdy
ART 1, LIFE 0The Hunger Games EconomyThe popularity of Suzanne Collins’s series suggests it has caught something many Americans sense: This is not the best we can do.Jedediah Purdy
THE SAME, ONLY WORSEOur Justices Are Politicos in RobesOur courts have always been political. And as our political life grows more divided and acrimonious, so will our legal system. Jedediah Purdy
The Law in All its MajestyIt’s Legal to Buy Votes in AmericaThe problem runs far deeper, to an absurdly narrow legal definition of ‘corruption’ that throws democracy on the trash heap.Jedediah Purdy
Forced SmileWhy Your Waiter Hates YouFaking it is the new feudalism. Why the low pay and job insecurity that come with “emotional work” is creating a nation full of phonies.Jedediah Purdy
Higher EducationWhen Diversity Fails the Poor“Economic diversity” is the latest higher-ed buzz phrase for lower-income students—but it conceals more than it reveals.Jedediah Purdy
In/EqualityWhy Some Are More Equal Than OthersAmericans pride themselves on an egalitarian society open to all. But some equality and inequality exist uneasily side by side. And the U.S. has never resolved this contradiction.Jedediah Purdy
History, Not EndedOn Obama, Occupy, and Moral MondayObama 2008, Occupy Wall Street, and Moral Mondays—no, they haven’t changed the world, but they certainly haven’t been failures either.Jedediah Purdy
The Big IdeaGod Save Us From This CourtOperating on elitism and mystique, America’s highest court is increasingly a threat to our ideal of self-government—leading to an important debate about how to fix it.Jedediah Purdy
