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David McCabe A Special Species Human Dignity George Kateb Belknap/Harvard University Press, $ 22.95, 244 pp. Most discussions of important moral and political issues, along with our everyday...

On Compromise and Rotten (March 2011)

David McCabe Deal or No Deal? On Compromise and Rotten Compromises Avishai Margalit Princeton University Press, $26.95, 232 pp. Hegel famously observed that the owl of Minerva takes flight only...

Frontiers of Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum (May 2006)

distinguishes, one might ask, correct ?Veil Coughlan moral intuitions from incorrect ones? Conformity with God's will at least sug- gests a criterion we can understand (though Manhattan...

Torture (May 2005)

David McCabe A Necessary Evil? Torture A Collection Edited by Sanford Levinson Oxford University Press, $29.95,319 pp. W hY debate torture? Unqualified rejection seems the only position...

Sovereign Virtue (December 2000)

supposedly drab conformity of the 1950s. Frank's analysis. Anyone who reads The ogist Anthony Giddens (the leading in- Today, corporate advertisers are enthu- Baffler knows the...

The Death of Outrage (November 1998)

To the woodshed David McCabe ill Bennett's mad as hell and he's not going to take it anymore. You can't blame him, really. Even though events of the last year have surely exceeded the wish...

The Idea of Human Rights (September 1998)

lic health priorities lose out to individual medical treatment and research. One also wonders if Callahan paints with too broad a brush and fails to acknowledge differing cultural...

ISAIAH BERLIN: UNDERSTANDING, NOT MASTERY (August 1998)

what wonderful stories I heard. When we said farewell to Mitsuko, I walked Isaiah back to his flat in Albany. Along the way we began to hum the opening bars of Schubert's Sonata, in B Flat, D....

Character counts We should have known that Bill Clinton is flawed (April 1997)

David McCabe CHARACTER COUNTS A Clinton voter reconsiders Bill Clinton's ascension to the presidency proved just how deep was the yearning among millions of Americans for a candidate who appeared...

Seedbeds of Virtue edited by Mary Ann Glendon and David Blankenhorn Common Values by Sissela Bok (June 1996)

RELATIVISM IN RETREAT Seedbeds of Virtue Edited by Mary Ann Glendon and David Blankenhom Madmm Books, $27,95,300 pp. Common Values Sissela Bok University of Missouri Press, $2750, 134...

Morality and Politics in Modern Europe/Religion, Politics, and the Moral Life, by Michael Oakeshott (April 1994)

A philosopher on the limits of philosophy ome writers we read because we want to know what to think. Unsure of ourselves, faced with confusing issues, we try on other people's arguments...

Only Words Catharine A. MacKinnon (February 1994)

IS PORNOGRAPHY 'FREE SPEECH'? ONLY WORDS Catharine A. MacKinnon Harvard University Press, $14.95,152 pp. David McCabe In case you haven't noticed, the old battle between pornography and...

Liberal Nationalism (May 1993)

to all citizens of the world, not just...

The Ethics of Authenticity/Multiculturalism and the Politics of Recognition: (February 1993)

BOOKS Taylor's significant horizons ccording to Charles THE ETHICS OF AUTHENTICITY But over time, argues Taylor,...

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