December 17, 2012
How to Learn From a Tragedy
For a great many people, it is simply not enough to mourn the losses in the Newtown massacre. They want to think about preventative measures, to figure out how to…
Author: Kevin Vallier
December 12, 2012
Property-Owning Democracy is Unjust
In my on-going series on Property-Owning Democracy (POD), I have explained the idea of a POD, examined the case for POD and argued that POD is unworkable. In this post,…
December 05, 2012
Property-Owning Democracy is Unworkable
In my last two posts, I explained Rawls’s idea of a property-owning democracy (POD) as elaborated by Thad Williamson and Martin O’Neill in much of their recent work, including this…
November 28, 2012
Why Property-Owning Democracy?
In this post, following my previous post, I will review the Rawlsian arguments for property-owning democracy (POD) and comment a bit on their structure. In short, POD is required to…
November 26, 2012
New Brettschneider Book
Corey Brettschneider, a political philosopher at Brown, has just published an interesting and thoughtful new book, When the State Speaks, What Should It Say? How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote…
November 20, 2012
Property-Owning Democracy
IN a recent Boston Review article, philosophers Martin O’Neill and Thad Williamson develop and defend Rawls’s ideal economic regime, property-owning democracy. Given that these two authors have recently put out…