Kwame Anthony Appiah teaches philosophy at Princeton. His latest book is The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen. (November 2012)
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We’re Still Puzzled
November 8, 2012
The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House
by Edward Klein
The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era
by Michael Grunwald
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The Election—III
November 8, 2012
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Battling with Du Bois
December 22, 2011
Democracy’s Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W.E.B. Du Bois
by Lawrie Balfour
In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America
by Robert Gooding-Williams
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The Apple Fell Far from the Tree
May 12, 2011
The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family
by Peter Firstbrook
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Religious Faith and John Rawls
December 9, 2010
A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith, with “On My Religion”
by John Rawls, edied by Thomas Nagel
Reading Obama: Dreams, Hopes and the American Political Tradition
by James T. Kloppenberg
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How Muslims Made Europe
November 6, 2008
God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 570–1215
by David Levering Lewis
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What Was Africa to Them?
September 27, 2007
The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade
by William St Clair
Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787–2005
by James T. Campbell
American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era
by Kevin K. Gaines
Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond
by Ekow Eshun, with illustrations by Chris Ofili
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
by Saidiya Hartman
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Whose Culture Is It?
February 9, 2006
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The Election and America’s Future
November 4, 2004
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Into the Woods
December 18, 2003
Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales
edited by Nelson Mandela
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You Must Remember This
March 13, 2003
The Ethics of Memory
by Avishai Margalit
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What Garland Knew
June 27, 2002
The Emperor of Ocean Park
by Stephen L. Carter
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The House of the Prophet
April 11, 2002
Martin Luther King Jr.
by Marshall Frady
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Equality of What?
April 26, 2001
Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality
Ronald Dworkin
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Dancing with the Moon
November 16, 2000
In the Arms of Africa:The Life of Colin M. Turnbull
by Roy Richard Grinker
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Battle of the Bien-Pensant
April 27, 2000
Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the Century
by Susan Gubar
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Africa: The Hidden History
December 17, 1998
Africa: A Biography of the Continent
by John Reader
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‘The Multiculturalist Misunderstanding’
March 5, 1998
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The Multiculturalist Misunderstanding
October 9, 1997
On Toleration by Michael Walzer
We Are All Multiculturalists Now by Nathan Glazer
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The Arts of Africa
April 24, 1997
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Censored in Palestine
October 17, 1996
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The Marrying Kind
June 20, 1996
The Case for Same-Sex Marriage by William N. Eskridge Jr.
Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality by Andrew Sullivan
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Slavery and the British Economy
April 6, 1995
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How to Succeed in Business by Really Trying
January 12, 1995
Race and Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell