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Civilization, Colonialism, and Berlin's Two Concepts of Liberty
At one point, in section I of his famous essay, “Two Concepts of Liberty,” Berlin makes the following remark: [T]he doctrine is comparatively modern…
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French radical Secularism, the closed society, and unreasonable views.
A few weeks ago, Cyril Hédoin responded insightfully and constructively (here) to an essay I recently published in Liberal Currents. Subsequently, he…
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Socrates' censorship of the poets, the art of government, and the advanced cognitive division of labor.
When I think of Socrates’ censorship of the poets in Book II-III of the Republic, I have had a tendency to understand it in terms of the disorder or…
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Socrates and the Transition problem.
By a ‘transition problem,’' I mean the challenge of how to move from an imperfect status quo to an ideal or vastly improved polity and, in particular…
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The pure institution of democratic control in The Commune (yes and Marx), and the Levelers.
In The Civil War in France, Marx notes that the Commune was committed to the following mechanism of democratic accountability: The judicial…
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Hume's Illiberal, realist Political theory; with a note on the muscular liberalism found in some branches of Public Choice
In a number of recent posts [recall here, here, here, here, here], I have argued that despite his many proto-liberal contributions to political economy…
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Zionism and Democratic Majoritarianism
Unlike most liberal commentators, I have little love or admiration for the Israeli Supreme Court. Because the Supreme Court doubles as a High Court of…
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The Cognitive Division of Labor, Socrates, and Damon, and some Plutarch
In the Republic, in the context of the education of the Guardians (or the purification of the Kallipolis), a certain Damon is mentioned explicitly a few…
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