Michael J. Sandel is professor of government at Harvard
University, where he has taught political philosophy
in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1980. He was educated
at Brandeis University and received his Ph.D. from
Balliol College, Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes
Scholar. He is a member of the National Constitution
Center Advisory Panel, the Rhodes Scholarship Committee
of Selection, the Shalom Hartman Institute of Jewish
Philosophy, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He has
received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the American
Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment
for the Humanities. He is the author, most
recently, of Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a
Public Philosophy(1996), as well as Liberalism and Its Critics
(1984) and Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1982)