A Political Theory Review interview with Julie Rose, Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College, about her recent book, Free Time (Princeton University Press, 2016). Hear more interviews from The Political Theory Review.
Archives for September 2017
What Did the Constitutional Convention Do with Slavery?
What do Madison’s Notes reveal about how the Constitution handled slavery? For example, what significance should we place on the strong condemnation of slavery we find in Madison’s re-telling of his June 6 speech, or on his account of his July 14 speech in favor of proportional representation in the legislature, where the institution of [...]
Living the Natural Law in an Age of Natural Rights
The natural law has much to contribute to our rights-focused political discourse. Three strategies can help those committed to the natural law to bring this contribution to bear in our time. My title assumes that there is a real difference between natural law and natural rights—perhaps even a “tension” or, worst of all, a “contradiction.” […]
Do We Need a Natural Law Theory of the State?
Is natural law equipped to ground a normative theory of the liberal democratic state in this era of the great struggle between globalization and its opponents? Forty years ago, the famed Canadian political theorist C.B. Macpherson asked the political science community a question: Do we need a theory of the state? Macpherson was a social […]