Free & Equal: A Journal of Ethics and Public Affairs was created in 2024 by the former editors of Philosophy & Public Affairs, which was founded in 1971 by Marshall Cohen, Thomas Nagel, and T.M. Scanlon. Our name, Free & Equal, expresses our two founding commitments: to free inquiry on equal terms about matters of public concern; and to the free dissemination and equal accessibility of the products of this inquiry. We welcome philosophical discussion of substantive legal, social, and political problems, as well as work that investigates abstract questions relevant to these problems—including work that challenges our founding commitments. Free & Equal provides a venue in which philosophically inclined authors from many disciplinary backgrounds and perspectives can bring their arguments to bear on problems that concern us all. Free & Equal has been published by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) since 2024.

Free & Equal would like to acknowledge and credit Matilda Luk for the design of our cover image.