Equality and Social Justice

Adam Smith Institute
http://www.adamsmith.org/
An influential UK-based libertarian think tank.

Broken of Britain
http://thebrokenofbritain.blogspot.co.uk/
A British disability rights blog and campaign website, covering cuts to welfare and services, discrimination, and other disability-related issues.

Equality and Human Rights Commission
http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/
An independent British public body, established under the Equality Act 2006, with a ‘statutory remit to promote and monitor human rights; and to protect, enforce and promote equality across the nine "protected" grounds⁠—age, disability, gender, race, religion and belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, sexual orientation and gender reassignment.’

Justice with Michael Sandel
http://www.justiceharvard.org/
Harvard professor Michael Sandel’s world-famous course on justice is available to watch in its entirety online.

‘Libertarianism and Liberty’ debate (Boston Review)
http://www.bostonreview.net/forum/libertarianism-and-liberty
A debate about the libertarian case for a small state and lower taxes, initiated by T. M. Scanlon, on the Boston Review website.

Marxists Internet Archive
http://www.marxists.org/
A massive archive of Marx’s and Marxist writings.

Philosophy Bites
http://philosophybites.com/justice/
http://philosophybites.com/equality/
A selection of podcasts with leading political theorists on the topics of justice and equality.

https://philosophybites.com/2011/01/michael-sandel-on-justice.html
https://philosophybites.com/2007/08/jonathan-wolff-.html
Michael Sandel discusses justice, and Jonathan Wolff discusses disadvantage.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-distributive/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/equality/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/egalitarianism/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/equal-opportunity/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rawls/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nozick-political/
Entries on justice, distributive justice, equality, egalitarianism, equality of opportunity, John Rawls, and Robert Nozick.

Race, Gender, and Affirmative Action
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~eandersn/biblio.htm
A huge collection of resources on race, gender, and affirmative action for teachers and students, maintained by Elizabeth Anderson of the University of Michigan.

Forum for Philosophy
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/theforum/affirmativeaction/
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/theforum/on-responsibility-and-justice/
Discussions of affirmative action and the place of responsibility in justice.

Rescuing Justice and Equality: Celebrating the Career of G. A. Cohen
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/keywords/cssj
Podcasts of a conference held in 2009 by the Centre for the Study of Social Justice at Oxford, on the work of G. A. Cohen.  Includes papers by a number of well-known theorists of social justice, plus closing remarks from Cohen.

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