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06, 2017
Two Proposals to Foster Autonomy, Renew Democracy and Exit Post-Truth Politics
By: Marco Senatore In a world where money is the only universal means of exchange, how different would society be
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05, 2017
Memory and History
Remembrance can never be settled once and for all. The needs of a society change over time, and remembrance evolves to accommodate these needs.
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08, 2016
Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties
Muhammad Ali was more than just king of the ring. He was a political figure with enormous influence. Too many people today, perhaps especially young people, are unaware of this important fact. It is a fact worth recalling. The social conflicts informing the revolutionary turbulence of the 1960s are still with us, and in some ways are more extreme now than they were then.
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07, 2016
Locke and the Right to (Acquire) Property: On the Philosophical Basis of Progressive Liberalism
Do the rich pay their fair share in taxes? What is a “fair share”? Do governments have the right to tax some in order to provide services for others, or is this just theft? To answer these current political questions we must examine the philosophical underpinnings of liberalism, both in its classical form, as articulated by John Locke, and in its contemporary “progressive" form.
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07, 2016
Georgetown and Slavery: Catholic Redemption in Contemporary Political Time
By: Justin R. Harbour, ALM Georgetown University is currently engaged in an attempt to research, understand, and repair its role
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06, 2016
Liberal Values in Market Society
By: Jeremy Kingston Much of political philosophy concerns itself with devising a priori systems (derived purely from theory) for organizing
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05, 2016
Judge Posner on Meta-Ethics and Rational vs. Nonrational Argumentation
Moral theory is like a system of mathematics that has never gotten beyond addition.” — R. POSNER
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02, 2016
Scalia and the Rule of Law
"The law," wrote Aristotle in his Politics, "is reason unaffected by desire". Perhaps no recent justice of the American Supreme Court was as concerned with this idea as the late Antonin Scalia.
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06, 2015
The United States Supreme Court and Same-Sex Marriages: Did The Court Miss An Opportunity For Something Greater?
By: Amar Khoday Let’s give credit where credit is due. The United States Supreme Court did a tremendous thing for
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06, 2015
The Frankenstein File
By: Kenneth Smookler The following is from a draft of a forthcoming book, with the working title Farr & Beyond: Lawyers