Brink Lindsey ends his recent post with the following question, one that continues to plague political philosophy, If liberal neutrality does have limits, where are they and how do you…
Modern political philosophers (such as Rawls, Dworkin, and others) have tried to reconcile the traditional liberal concern for liberty with the demands of distributive justice, the latter understood as a…
In my last post, which generated a lot of controversy, I discussed (but did not defend) FIRE’s (apparent) plan to defend the freedom of association rights of religious groups at…
Many of our readers appreciated Elizabeth Anderson’s contribution to this blog a few months back, critical though it was of many key libertarian claims. I did too, though that’s no…
John Rawls was a critic of libertarianism. This much is well known. What is less well known is Rawls’s criticism of libertarianism in Political Liberalism (which I’m rereading in preparation…
Jerry Gaus’s The Order of Public Reason, described by the Notre Dame Review of Books as “the most complete and rigorous defense of classical liberalism available,” has just come out in paperback. While…