Another Trump presidency may be right around the corner. Perhaps his primary economic policy point this campaign has been his favorite word: “tariffs.” According to Alan Rappeport, an economic policy reporter for The New York Times, Trump has considered instituting between 10 and 50 percent tariffs on all imported products, a 60 percent tariff on […]
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Hannah Arendt on Statesmanship
Amongst the general educated public in America, the eminent political theorist Hannah Arendt is probably best known for her concept of “the banality of evil,” which she discusses in her 1963 book about the trial of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann. One indicator of just how famous the phrase “banality of evil” became is […]
Yascha Mounk – The Identity Trap
A conversation with Yascha Mounk, a professor of the practice of international affairs at Johns Hopkins University, about his new book, “The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time” (Penguin Random House). The Identity Trap covers the push for social justice and newfound cultural identity in the West from a new […]
Philip Pettit – The State
A conversation with Philip Pettit, a Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, on his new book “The State” (Princeton UP, 2023). Pettit has published several important works within the world of moral and political philosophy such as “On the People’s Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of […]
Liberal Freedom: Author Interview with Eric MacGilvray
Eric MacGilvray (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy. His research and teaching interests center in modern and contemporary political thought, with an emphasis on liberal, republican, and democratic theory and the pragmatic philosophical tradition. He is the author of Liberal Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 2022), The Invention of Market Freedom (Cambridge University Press, […]
