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Sissela Bok

Sissela Bok

Sissela Bok, a writer and philosopher, is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. She is the author of many books, including Lying: Moral Choice in Private and Public Life (1978, 1989, 1999), Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation (1982, 1989), Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment (1998), and Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science (2010). icon

Virtual Roundtable on Presidential First Use of Nuclear Weapons

By Jim McGovern, William J. Perry, Bruce G. Blair, Rosa Brooks, Kennette Benedict, John Burroughs, Bruce Ackerman, Zia Mian, Hugh Gusterson, & Sissela Bok

Is it legal? Is it constitutional? Is it just?

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