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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Boston Review Is Equal Opportunity Enough?.
EDITORS’ NOTE
Equality of opportunity is a widely shared ideal. Across the ideological spectrum it is often held up as an economic model—a way of arranging access to education, work, and wealth—as well as a funda...
WHAT’S WRONG WITH EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
THE LAST DECADE has delivered increasingly bleak portraits of vast inequalities in income, wealth, health, and other measures of well-being in many rich capitalist countries, from the United States...
EQUALITY OF RESULTS REVISITED
TROUBLED by growing inequality—as we all should be—Christine Sypnowich argues that opportunity-based egalitarianism is an insufficient tool for promoting a just society. I welcome her emphasis on eq...
THE ART OF EQUALITY
I was recently rereading Robin D. G. Kelley’s magnificent book Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002) when I came across his conclusion that “high expectations begot the civil rights m...
THAT’S NOT SOCIALISM
I AGREE with Christine Sypnowich that equality of opportunity, even in its most radical forms, is insufficient for equal flourishing. But I do not think that equal flourishing is a good description ...
DESIGNING FOR OUTCOMES
christine sypnowich argues for a radical egalitarian ideal according to which people possess “not just opportunities to flourish but actual flourishing.” In making her case, she attacks equal-opport...