A mere two decades ago it was widely assumed that liberal democracy and the Open
Society it created had decisively won their century-long struggle against authoritarianism …

Americans today don't trust each other and their institutions as much as they once did. The
collapse of social and political trust has arguably fueled our increasingly ferocious …

Americans today are far less likely to trust their institutions, and each other, than in decades
past. This collapse in social and political trust arguably fuels our increasingly ferocious …

A fresh assessment of Catholic integralism and other new and radical religious alternatives
to liberal democracy. According to a common narrative, the twentieth century spelled the end …

A central—perhaps the central—question of the philosophy of law concerns the relationship
between law and morality. The concern breaks down into many issues, both conceptual and …

WELIVE IN AN UNJUST WORLD. Our social and political institutions stand in need of
reform. But of all the changes we might make to these institutions, which would genuinely …

Gerald Gaus was one of the leading liberal theorists of the early twenty-first century. He
defended liberal order based on its unique capacity to handle deep disagreement and …

Effective and rights-respecting hate speech interventions should encourage cohesion more
than hate and inclusion more than division. Importantly, they should also guarantee the right …

Hobbes believed that the state of nature would be a war of all against all. Locke denied this,
but acknowledged that in the absence of government, peace is insecure. In this paper, I …

Anarchists all share the same basic public policy proposal: abolish public policy. Anarchists
and their critics, then, seem to be speaking different languages. Political philosophers ought …