The shocking dimensions of China’s repression in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region are now beyond dispute. In early 2017, after spending years perfecting a high-tech surveillance regime…… Read more “Uighur Poets on Repression and Exile | by Joshua L. Freeman | The New York Review of Books”
Tag: Justice
Putin’s Constitutional Tsarism | by Anastasia Edel | The New York Review of Books
… if history offers any lessons, this attempt at greatness will last no longer than the false covenants and official statues every autocracy erects, for they fail…… Read more “Putin’s Constitutional Tsarism | by Anastasia Edel | The New York Review of Books”
The Habermas-Rawls Debate // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame
James Gordon Finlayson’s book gives us a well-informed and detailed account of the exchange between Habermas and Rawls about questions of political justice and legitimacy. Finlayson discusses…… Read more “The Habermas-Rawls Debate // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame”
The Best Leadership Books | Five Books Expert Recommendations
The best books on leadership (from the ancient world), as recommended by Jeffrey Beneker, Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. — Read on fivebooks.com/best-books/leadership-jeffrey-beneker/
Whose Culture Is It? | by Kwame Anthony Appiah | The New York Review of Books
“There is no document of civilization,” Walter Benjamin maintained, in his most often-quoted line, “that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.” He was…… Read more “Whose Culture Is It? | by Kwame Anthony Appiah | The New York Review of Books”
The Violent Visions of Slavoj Žižek | by John Gray | The New York Review of Books
Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary capitalism better than the Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek. The financial and economic crisis has demonstrated the fragility…… Read more “The Violent Visions of Slavoj Žižek | by John Gray | The New York Review of Books”
Justification and Emancipation: The Critical Theory of Rainer Forst // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame
Amy Allen and Eduardo Mendieta have given us a timely and valuable appreciation of, and critical engagement with, the work of Rainer Forst. Forst is one of…… Read more “Justification and Emancipation: The Critical Theory of Rainer Forst // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame”
The Unlikely Life of a Socialist Activist Resonates a Century Later – The New York Times
She was an impoverished Jewish immigrant from Russia who had started working in a cigar factory at the age of 11; he was the scion of an…… Read more “The Unlikely Life of a Socialist Activist Resonates a Century Later – The New York Times”
Free Will Skepticism in Law and Society: Challenging Retributive Justice // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame
Caruso’s and Waller’s contributions have the dual merits of identifying pragmatic consequences largely overlooked in the standard free will literature thus far, as well as offering persuasive…… Read more “Free Will Skepticism in Law and Society: Challenging Retributive Justice // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame”
Who Has the Right to Be a Writer? | Literary Hub
I told her that we hear more often about the overnight successes and the six-figure book deals and the artistic geniuses than we do about the beautiful,…… Read more “Who Has the Right to Be a Writer? | Literary Hub”
