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Piketty, Inequality, and a Call for Data

By Sara Altman on October 29, 2015

French economist Thomas Piketty delivered the Arrow Lecture in Ethics and Leadership on Friday, October 23.

The United States is Nothing if Not Resolute

By Jacob Waggoner on October 15, 2015

Time and time again, the United States’ efforts in the Middle East have borne little fruit. Intervention after intervention, war after war.

Political theorists wrap up another successful retreat

By Patrick Taylor Smith on June 6, 2015

A group of Stanford graduate student and postdoc political theorists - affectionately known as "the Dirty Leviathan" - attended their sixth annual retreat at a beach house outside Watsonville on May 15th through 17th, 2015.

Kitcher on what secular ethics can learn from religion

By Maya Krishnan on May 19, 2015

Philosopher Philip Kitcher describes what secular ethicists can learn from religion in a talk on April 30th at the Stanford Humanities Center.

Experts discuss giving for global poverty relief

By The Buzz Staff on April 24, 2015

Speaking to a packed crowd of students, faculty, and community members on April 8th, philosopher Peter Singer championed the “Effective Altruism” movement, led by people who, as Singer describes it, seek to apply “evidence and reason to determining the most effective ways to improve the world.”