What’s the point of political philosophy?
Beware attempts to make political theory "relevant"
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Arguing against gay marriage
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Against pragmatism
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Moral rethink
In the April issue of Prospect, David Goodhart champions Jonathan Haidt’s recent book The Righteous Mind as a potential “scientific manual for the movement that post-liberalism,” and even “the last hope for European liberalism.” Haidt’s book is the culmination of many years’ research into moral judgement, which he... -
Will the real liberal America please speak up?
The phrase “Latte-sipping liberal elite” may have recently arrived on British soil, but the picture it paints is straight out of the American political playbook. Having moved to the US last summer to do a humanities PhD at an Ivy League university—truly fertile ground for smug soft-leftism if there ever...