April 29, 2013
Training Political Philosophers
I’m participating in a conference on “Markets, Justice, and the Law” at the end of the month. The theme of the conference is in part to examine where the social…
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April 26, 2013
John Rawls, Margaret Thatcher, and Property Owning Democracy
[Editor’s Note: The following is a guest contribution by Felix Bungay, a student at the University of Cambridge reading an MPhil in Intellectual History and Political Thought.] While many Bleeding…
April 26, 2013
Sandel on Queuing
It seems that every year, someone publishes a book on the moral limits of markets. Peter Jaworski and I will most likely be writing a book responding to these other…
April 24, 2013
Who’s Afraid of Natural Rights? (Part II)
In my first post, I discussed the argument that there are no natural rights because such rights are too indeterminate. In this post I wish to take up another kind…
April 23, 2013
What Is a Terrorist?
In the wake of the Boston attack, I thought I would share my view of what makes someone a terrorist. Defining terrorism has proven especially daunting. The main reason is…
April 17, 2013
Workshop on Alex Gourevitch, _Something of Slavery Still Remains_
On May 14, we will hold a workshop at McGill on Alex Gourevitch’s manuscript Something of Slavery Still Remains: Labor and the Cooperative Commonwealth. Gourevitch is Assistant Professor of Political…