Is torture ever justified? Would you steal a drug that your child needs to survive? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? How much is one human life worth? In the "Justice" program that bears his name, Harvard professor Michael Sandel probes these questions -- and asks what you think, and why.

Democracy thrives on civil debate, Michael Sandel says -- but we're shamefully out of practice. He leads a fun refresher, with TEDsters sparring over a recent Supreme Court case (PGA Tour Inc. v. Martin) whose outcome reveals the critical ingredient in justice.

What accounts for our polarized public life, and how can we begin to heal it? Political philosopher Michael Sandel offers a surprising answer: those who have flourished need to look in the mirror. He explores how "meritocratic hubris" leads many to believe their success is their own doing and to look down on those who haven't made it, provoking ...

In the past three decades, says Michael Sandel, the US has drifted from a market economy to a market society; it's fair to say that an American's experience of shared civic life depends on how much money they have. (Three key examples: access to education, access to justice, political influence.) In a talk and audience discussion, Sandel asks us...

Grit is not the reason people succeed -- time management is according to entrepreneur and philanthropist Michael Sundel. Sundel talks about his software that aids businesses, groups, and individuals with their time management skills to improve their success.

-Idea challenge- Nothing more than art represents the eternal. Nothing more than art hides a 'forever'. A painting, a song, a film; everything lives in an emotion. Everything lives in the memory. In a beautiful theatre (Teatro Curci in Barletta) Graziano Galatone, Francesco Santalucia and Michele Ragno, with the dancers Rossella Dicuonzo, M...