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Owen Smith, San Francisco Arts Commission, 2010 ( owensmithart.com ) “Think of American history as a suspension bridge that rests on . . . three great long-term crises,” Zaretsky writes, identifying slavery, industry, and finance as the sources of crisis. Building the Iron Horse by Owen Smith. More

Adam Smith (above), long considered the original apostle of free markets, was in fact a highly ethical economist: more Ashoka than Kautilya. More

The Indian Nobel economist, Amartya Sen (below), is probably the best known exponent of values-based economics today. In his introduction to Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments , he wrote approvingly that Smith argued that “humanity, justice, generosity, and public spirit are the qualities More

Moses’ subjectivity and vulnerability provide us human insight into the mysterious prophetic character. Hillel Smith More

Three poets’ different uses of identity remind us that what we see is impacted by the windows out of which we look. Hillel Smith More

Creative Commons/United States Marine Corps The nonstop trauma of basic training orients young military recruits toward patriarchy and aggression. Here, a twenty-year-old machine gunner practices shooting in Fort Smith, Arkansas. More

Tikkun Members of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue pray alongside Rev. Dr. J. Alfred Smith Jr. of Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland, California, after the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s killer. Disappointingly few synagogues nationwide engaged in similar expressions of Jewish-Black solidarity. More