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The possibility of an ethical politics

Rafael Ziegler (Greifswald): Crooked Wood, Straight Timber: Kant, Development and Nature. Louis E. Wolcher (Washington): An Inquiry into the Possibility of an Ethical Politics. Stephen Eric Bronner (Rutgers): Constructing a Critical Political Theory. Stanley Aronowitz (CUNY): Class and Political Philosophy. Lenart Skof (Primorska): In Dialogue for Democracy: R. M. Unger’s Pragmatist Vision of Democratic Experimentalism and Explorations of Democracy in Luce Irigaray. Henrik Friberg-Fernros (Gothenburg): Abortion and the Limits of Political Liberalism. Rafal Wonicki (Warsaw): Cosmopolitanism and Liberalism: Kant and Contemporary Liberal Cosmopolitanism. Roland Axtmann (Swansea): Democracy and Globality. Julie Mostov (Drexel): Rethinking Borders, Violence, and Space. A review of Seeking Spatial Justice by Edward W. Soja. Beyond rights and borders: An interview with Onora O'Neill. Here are papers from a conference on Territory and Justice. From Quadrant, James Allan on intimations of the decline of democracy; Paul Monk on the open society and its friends; and an appreciation of Isaiah Berlin’s life and work. From Dissent, Rafael Khachaturian on Isaiah Berlin. The overarching telos of liberalism has been reached, and we are left with liberal society as an assortment of private teloi — where now? A review of A Brief History of Liberty by David Schmidtz and Jason Brennan. A review of Are Liberty and Equality Compatible? by Jan Narveson and James P. Sterba. A review of Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists by Daniel Dorling (and more). More on G. A. Cohen's Rescuing Justice and Equality. From Variant, Femi Folorunso remembers Brian Barry. From The Utopian, too much justice: An interview with Harvey C. Mansfield. A review of Philosophy and Real Politics by Raymond Geuss. Leo Strauss is back and better than ever in new recordings and transcripts of his political philosophy lectures.