Justice Everywhere

In this post, Mario I. Juarez-Garcia (Tulane University) discusses his article recently published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy on the unexplored value of giving up. A World of Constant Failure We all fail. Our papers get rejected, we do not get the job, we declare bankruptcy, we divorce. These are some of the numerous failures that force us to revisit our decisions, aban...

This post is co-authored by Matthew Adams and Fay Niker, and is based on their recent, open-access journal article “Taking Advantage of Crises“. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the humanitarian crisis it created, Milton Friedman wrote an influential op-ed in the Wall Street Journal advocating for a school voucher system in New Orleans. “This is a tragedy,&...

Two global crises are troubling policy-makers, academics, and large swaths of the general public. The first one is political, currently unfolding, and could be best labelled as a crisis of democracy. As the latest V-DEM Report on Democracy shows, the gains of the so-called “third wave of democracy” have been almost completely wiped out, with democracy worldwide going back to 197...

An important body of literature has documented, and sometimes lamented, the decline of partisanship over the last few decades. Party membership and partisan identification seem to have decreased significantly, while skepticism towards partisan politics has increased among populations of consolidated democracies. However, as I argue in a recent article, while some aspects of this...