Sublime

As Rawls put it, “Lacking a sense of longterm security and the opportunity for meaningful work and occupation is not only destructive of citizens’ self-respect but of their sense that they are members of society and not simply caught in it.”

On current evidence, the reimagining of liberalism is not about to happen, as most attempts either buy into the liberal premise that the economy trumps culture, which ignores the importance of mutual recognition, or else accept the primacy of the individual and negative liberty, which ends in the individualism that has destroyed any prospects of sh

If God is liberating blacks from oppression, why then are they still oppressed? Where is the decisive liberation event in African-American history which gives credibility

Adam Smith, placé chronologiquement entre Locke et Calhoun, et partant précisément de la même réalité de l’esclavage qu’eux, qu’ils appréhendent respectivement soit comme allant de soi et incontestable, soit, carrément, comme un « bien positif », développe une argumentation et exprime une préférence qui méritent d’être rapportées en détail. L’escla

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Crits are suspicious of another liberal mainstay, namely, rights. Particularly some of the older, more radical CRT scholars with roots in racial realism and an economic view of history believe that moral and legal rights are apt to do the right holder much less good than we like to think. In our system, rights are almost always procedural (for exam