My friend David Sobel has asked me to pass along this Call for Abstracts. Take a look. This promises to be an exciting new workshop, and an important new journal….
I’ve argued (ad nauseam) that property-owning democracy is bad because it is unworkable and unjust. I shall now argue that it is authoritarian as well. But before I begin, what…
Here, just in time for holiday fun, is some old-fashioned ordinary-language, probably worthless, rumination. It is often said, when criticizing institutions, that such and such political arrangement systematically hurts the…
In light of the recent calls for a “national conversation” about gun violence and gun control, and in light of the admiration that some of us here at BHL have…
In my last post, in my series on property-owning democracy (POD), I claimed that it is unjust because POD frustrates the realization of Rawls’s (unmodified) two principles of justice. But…
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…