Michael Sandel

Michael Sandel, born in 1953, is an American political philosopher and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where his course Justice was the first at the university to be made freely available online and on television and has been viewed by tens of millions of people, including in China. He is known for his critique of John Rawls in his first book, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice, published in 1982. His later books include Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?, published in 2009, and The Tyranny of Merit, published in 2020.