Cass Sunstein has a nice piece looking at the claims that Thomas Piketty makes about inequality and whether that actually accords with what most people think are acceptable levels of inequality.

John Rawls, one of the 20 th century’s most notable political philosophers, proposed a theory of distributive justice known as justice as fairness. According to his theory, once a society successfully ...

In what seems like a previous life, I slogged through John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice. Rawls argued that we should judge policies that would treat different people differently by applying what he ...