The great political philosopher John Rawls had a concept that he called reflective equilibrium. The idea is you start with a ...

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I don’t agree with her position on the new permitting reform bill, but I think Genevieve Guenther perfectly captures the disagreement between the left and center-left: The bill would facilitate the ...