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Michael Sandel

September 2021

  • Olaf Scholz

    The Guardian view on Europe’s centre-left: new grounds for optimism

    Editorial: There are signs that previously struggling social democratic parties are drawing the right lessons from the pandemic

March 2021

  • Mark Carney at the Bank of England

    ‘We are seeing a crisis in values’ – an exclusive extract from Mark Carney’s book

    In an exclusive extract from his new book, the former head of the Bank of England looks at the danger of putting a price on everything

September 2020

  • Michael Sandel photographed last month in the grounds of Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    Michael Sandel: 'The populist backlash has been a revolt against the tyranny of merit'

    The philosopher believes the liberal left’s pursuit of meritocracy has betrayed the working classes. His new book argues for a politics centred on dignity

May 2018

  • An orangutan in a 'forest school'.

    Will putting a price on nature devalue its worth?

    Letters: Readers respond for and against George Monbiot, including Tony Juniper of WWF

April 2016

  • Philosopher Michael Sandel

    The week in radio: The Global Philosopher, Book of the Week: This Orient Isle, Finding Harpo’s Voice

    Philosopher Michael Sandel’s debate with the whole world, Elizabeth I’s terrible teeth – plus a hearing for the silent Marx brother

March 2016

  • Michael Sandel, American political philosopher: admired by David Miliband and David Willetts

    The Guardian view on debating migration: enter the Global Philosopher

    Editorial: Why do human beings form attachments to lands defined by borders and treat others as outsiders?

January 2015

  • Michael Sandel CIF

    In my opinion
    Michael Sandel: The more things money can buy, the harder it is to be poor – video

    Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel argues that where money determines access to necessities such as health and education, inequality matters more

October 2014

  • Michael Sandel

    Michael Sandel webchat – as it happened

    The Harvard professor whose philosophical lectures attract crowds of thousands – and many more besides online – joined us to answer your questions, on everything from the important of shared stories, to why he avoids the combative style so favoured by other thinkers

May 2013

  • Newcastle United's Sports Direct Arena

    What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J Sandel – review

    Michael J Sandel rails against the commodification of everyday life in this thought-provoking polemic, writes Julian Baggini

April 2013

  • Michael Sandel

    This much I know
    Michael Sandel: This much I know

    The 60-year-old political philosopher on the reading, growing up in a Jewish family and the moral limits of markets

September 2012

  • Michael Sandel at the Labour conference

    Labour conference 2012: a cerebral address on moral limits of markets

    Harvard University professor Michael Sandel tells delegates a debate about markets would invigorate politics

August 2012

  • CIF Interviews: Sjon

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Edinburgh International Book festival podcast: Nell Freudenberger, Sjon, Jess Richards and Michael Sandel

  • Collection of US dollars and euros

    Project Syndicate economists
    Dealing with the legitimacy of money's distribution

July 2012

  • Michael Sandel

    Social housing and the moral limits of economic markets

    Kevin Gulliver
  • David Gauke … resetting our moral compasses or deflecting attention from bankers?

    Why politicians are making morality fashionable again

June 2012

  • Police Evict St Paul's Occupy Protesters

    How Much is Enough? by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky; What Money Can't Buy by Michael Sandel – review

    Giles Fraser assesses two books that ask about the morality of the market and the nature of value

May 2012

  • 'What is a good hospital?' … Michael Sandel

    The G2 interview
    Michael Sandel: 'We need to reason about how to value our bodies, human dignity, teaching and learning'

    The political philosophy professor on his new book, What Money Can't Buy, and why economics needs to be seen not as a science but a moral philosophy
  • WALMART

    Book of the week
    What Money Can't Buy by Michael Sandel – review

    John Lanchester welcomes a challenge to the idea that markets are morally neutral

  • Critical eye
    Critical eye: reviews roundup

    The New Few by Ferdinand Mount, What Money Can't Buy by Michael Sandel and Mark Haddon's The Red House

April 2012

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    The Observer profile
    Michael Sandel: master of life's big questions

    Profile: The political philosopher made his name at Harvard with crowd-pulling lectures, is now wowing audiences on Radio 4, while his new book offers an eloquent argument for morality in public life
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