Ezra Klein, Self-Harm, and Liberal Perfectionism
From the beginning, liberals have felt the need to promote the development and flourishing of human nature in light of the good even if they disagreed about what it might be.
Public Reason and Unreasonable Pluralism
In the context of castigating authors’ servile dedications to superiors, and dedicating his own (1757) Four Dissertations to his cousin
The Harmony of Interests
Many liberal theorists have an implied distaste for politics. One prominent type of this liberal anti-politics presupposes a harmony
Liberal Skepticism and the Gender Identity Culture Wars
This essay is cross-published on Substack for the author’s paying subscribers. In the Smithian version of its origin
The Two Origin Stories of Liberalism
This essay is based on the invited comments delivered on March 10, 2023, celebrating the Lee Kong Chian Chair Professorship