Brian Milstein

I don't log onto Twitter/X very much any more, so I was pleasantly surprised to find that The Syllabus (@the-syllabus.bsky.social) had named my recent piece their "article of the week" back in January!

(Article here: buff.ly/40igRlJ)

Or perhaps "Gulf of Anthraxico"?

I can get behind this

JOB
Assistant Professor in the History of International Political Thought c.1700 to the Present, University of Cambridge

(this is a permanent/tenured position, open to those with a specialism in any period since 1700)
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50242/

I didn't know that part about the Tory connection! Actually, I wasn't meaning to laud property-owning democracy; in fact, it partly illustrates my issue with him (preferring to disperse instead of democratize the means of production), which I think I share with you.

…and this required a certain language and tenor. [5/5]

You might also add (d) a commitment to ideal theorizing that insists we need to "identify correct principles" in a way supposedly autonomous from politics. On the other hand, one could argue that he was not addressing himself to socialists but looking to move liberalism leftward,… [4/5]

(a) taking on board too much of Berlin's critique of "positive freedom," (b) taking Keynesian economics as settled doctrine, and (c) that US/European societies were on a more or less given trajectory toward greater egalitarianism and qualified as already "almost just." [3/5]

He fronted inequality, but the concern with class domination and its implications for democracy was still in there—hence his rejection of the postwar welfare state and support of "property-owning democracy." For me, the issue with Rawls comes down to… [2/5]

Offhand, I'd say there's truth to this but it also depends how you read Rawls; there's also a case for distinguishing between what he actually wrote and how he's typically received in many analytic circles. [1/5]

Alienation, equality, and multifaith establishment The forthcoming article “Alienation, equality, and multifaith establishment” by Andrew Shorten is summarized by the author below. Can state support for religious practices or identities ever be com…

A short summary of my forthcoming article 'Alienation, equality and multifaith establishment' has just been uploaded at the AJPS blog, where you can also find a link to the open access version of the full paper:

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My new article: "A postcosmopolitan condition? Economic progressivism and the return of great power war," out now at Philosophy & Social Criticism. It defends cosmopolitanism from left statism by critiquing the assumption that a Westphalian system is less friendly to capital than a globalized one.