Sandel won $1 million from the Berggruen Institute and was named their 2025 laureate for Philosophy & Culture on Tuesday.

Michael Sandel, a leading political philosopher, has been named the 2025 Laureate of the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture. The award recognizes his profound influence on global thinking about ...

The annual prize is given “to a thinker whose ideas are shaping human self-understanding to advance humankind.” ...

Lorenzo Z. Ruiz ’27, a Crimson Editorial editor, lives in Winthrop House. I’m in Justice. It makes me fear for the future of the academy. Michael J. Sandel’s Justice: “Ethical Reasoning in Polarized ...

Michael Sandel on the Berggruen Prize, the Administration's attacks on universities, and the danger of a meritocracy ...

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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?” ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Berggruen Institute today named political philosopher Michael Sandel as the 2025 Laureate of the Berggruen Prize for ...