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Monday, April 13, 2020

Nussbaum's Surprising Conservatism

Anthony M. Barr reviews The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal, by Martha C. Nussbaum, at Modern Age.

"It is profoundly strange to interpret our founding documents and traditions in a way that grounds a natural right to life in prepolitical moral law but denies any claim to material things necessary to sustain life."

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