The authors of Reconstructing Democracy support some level of popular control, but seem unaware of their own refined condescension.
Mark Blitz
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May 12, 2020
Individual virtue is not the only justified claim to rule or share in rule, and it would be a most unusual city that was ruled by the virtuous simply.
Sep 2, 2019
Michael Walzer seeks to replace an approach to justice based on academic philosophers’ abstractions with a standpoint that respects political concreteness.
Jul 30, 2018
Persian Letters may well be Montesquieu’s introduction to his own literary art—to how to write, and how to read.
Mark Blitz is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy and director of the Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World at Claremont McKenna College, and a fellow of the Claremont Institute.