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There is one overmastering problem that the socially and politically disinherited always face: Under what terms is survival possible?
Howard Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
“Idealism kills. Mutual interests save lives.”
- Minister Chen from Madam Secretary
True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership (J-B Warren Bennis Series Book 143)
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The Straussian Moment
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Any concept of justice that hopes to win broad support in the real world has to be political in these three ways: to be narrow in scope; to be free-standing of any comprehensive moral doctrine; and to be grounded in widely shared ideas drawn from the public political culture. The original position ensures that Rawls’s principles possess these featu
... See moreDaniel Chandler • Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society
Like most social and political theory, the story Hobbes and his successors told was really unacknowledged autobiography.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Solidarity with the World: Charles Taylor and Hans Urs von Balthasar on Faith, Modernity, and Catholic Mission (Theopolitical Visions Book 20)
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Grand Strategy: the alignment of potentially limited aspirations with necessarily limited capabilities
John Lewis Gaddis