January 13, 2016
Jacob Levy as an Historian of Political Thought
But what is it for? Historians of political thought are often confronted with this question, perhaps more often than we would like. It’s also a harder question to answer than…
Posts filed under Freedom
January 12, 2016
Assessing the Freedom Of, and the Freedom From, Cities
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] Jacob Levy’s Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom is a superb work of political theory and intellectual history. It introduces, in clear and compelling language, a new…
January 11, 2016
Rationalism, Pluralism, and Federalism
“Federalism” is not in the title of Jacob’s book, but to an American constitutional lawyer it is one of the two most obvious sites of the tension that he discusses….