I don't log onto Twitter/X very much any more, so I was pleasantly surprised to find that The Syllabus (@the-syllabus.bsky.social) had named my recent piece their "article of the week" back in January!
(Article here: buff.ly/40igRlJ)
Or perhaps "Gulf of Anthraxico"?
I can get behind this
JOB
Assistant Professor in the History of International Political Thought c.1700 to the Present, University of Cambridge
(this is a permanent/tenured position, open to those with a specialism in any period since 1700)
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50242/
I didn't know that part about the Tory connection! Actually, I wasn't meaning to laud property-owning democracy; in fact, it partly illustrates my issue with him (preferring to disperse instead of democratize the means of production), which I think I share with you.
…and this required a certain language and tenor. [5/5]
You might also add (d) a commitment to ideal theorizing that insists we need to "identify correct principles" in a way supposedly autonomous from politics. On the other hand, one could argue that he was not addressing himself to socialists but looking to move liberalism leftward,… [4/5]
(a) taking on board too much of Berlin's critique of "positive freedom," (b) taking Keynesian economics as settled doctrine, and (c) that US/European societies were on a more or less given trajectory toward greater egalitarianism and qualified as already "almost just." [3/5]
He fronted inequality, but the concern with class domination and its implications for democracy was still in there—hence his rejection of the postwar welfare state and support of "property-owning democracy." For me, the issue with Rawls comes down to… [2/5]
Offhand, I'd say there's truth to this but it also depends how you read Rawls; there's also a case for distinguishing between what he actually wrote and how he's typically received in many analytic circles. [1/5]
A short summary of my forthcoming article 'Alienation, equality and multifaith establishment' has just been uploaded at the AJPS blog, where you can also find a link to the open access version of the full paper:
My new article: "A postcosmopolitan condition? Economic progressivism and the return of great power war," out now at Philosophy & Social Criticism. It defends cosmopolitanism from left statism by critiquing the assumption that a Westphalian system is less friendly to capital than a globalized one.
