Elizabeth S. Anderson

Despite its failures and limitations, the American Revolution unleashed popular aspirations to throw off tyranny of all kinds.

New books examine the place of work in our lives—and how people throughout history have tried to change it.

The moral terrain of crowdfunding is fueled by two persistent social ideologies: the dual, and intertwined, myths of meritocracy and the “deserving poor.”

How to understand Adam Smith’s politics.

Amidst growing suspicion that equality talk is cheap, a new book explains where egalitarianism went wrong—and what it still has to offer.

In our own era of uncontrolled working hours, controlling our time is a vision of freedom worth capturing.