The week of March 9 is Spring Break at Penn. I'm not going anywhere for vacation, but it would be good for me to be able to focus on my book with a relative lack of distractions for several days in a row. So I'm taking a brief hiatus. I will, of course, keep following the news, and if things go seriously sideways in the Iran War, or with anything else, I may weigh in. Otherwise, I'll be back with a new post on March 16. Now to the Q&A'. E-DubI've been meaning to ask a foundational question for some time. What is your concept of morality and its role in politics, and what are the prospects for a shared morality in our culture going forward' Nicholas FreresYou once mentioned in a previous post that you had an intense dislike for the political theorist John Rawls. Could you explain what is your objection to Rawls' I read Rawls when I was a student in political philosophy long, long ago at Marquette University. My teacher at that time (himself a one-time student of Eric Voegelin) also...
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