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Looking to political philosophy

From the Holmes Lecture series at Harvard Law School, Jeremy Waldron (NYU): Why Call Hate Speech Group Libel?; Libel and Legitimacy; and What Does a Well-Ordered Society Look Like? How could disappointment in one's country inspire increased loyalty? The first chapter from Liberal Loyalty: Freedom, Obligation, and the State by Anna Stilz. Liberalism does not imply democracy: Jeremy Gilbert debates Rosemary Bechler. Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt): Can Liberals Take Their Own Side in an Argument?; and the introduction to Democracy and Moral Conflict by Robert Talisse (and more). A review of Democracy Kills: What's So Good About the Vote? by Humphrey Hawksley. A review of The Life and Death of Democracy by John Keane (and more). The first chapter from Philosophy, Politics, Democracy by Joshua Cohen. From The Nation, a review of Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael Sandel (and more and more and more and more) and The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen (and more at Carnegie Council and more from TNR). Rawlsian Relay: Amartya Sen declares the Ideal State useless — but four months on, its resilience as an idea begins to intrigue. The echo of Judith Shklar's Ordinary Vices can hardly be measured in terms of high-impact journal articles, yet impact there certainly was. The first chapter from On Compromise and Rotten Compromises by Avishai Margalit (and more). A review of Toward a Humanist Justice: The Political Philosophy of Susan Moller Okin. Don't look to economists to get us out of this hollow mould of neoliberal economics and managerialism; we need to be looking to political philosophy.