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Been a while since I've done something like this. Limit fifty because I've only read about fifty books.
1. Starting with something recent. Confronting Inequality, by Jonathan Ostry, Prakash Loungani, and Andrew Berg. There is, over the long term, probably an *inverse* correlation between inequality and economic growth. We can foster *durable* growth with egalitarian policies. Image
2. Rule of the Clan, by Mark Weiner. Individual freedom is made possible in significant part by the anonymity and rule of law of modern, bureaucratic states. Image
3. The Imperative of Integration, by Elizabeth Anderson. A compelling case for the harms of racial segregation and the, well, imperative of integration. goodreads.com/review/show/14… Image
4. Private Government, by Elizabeth Anderson. Anderson suggests liberals failed to adequately critique the hierarchy experienced in (esp. large) capitalist firms after the Industrial Revolution. Industrial capitalism is a source of freedom *and* unfreedom. goodreads.com/book/show/3288… Image
5. Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom, by @jtlevy. Freedom is (sometimes!) found in the fertile tension between rationalist interference with intermediate or local oppression and the resistance of plural intermediate powers/institutions to centralized authority. Image
6. Development as Freedom, by Amartya Sen. We should look at comprehensive outcomes *and* processes, freedoms de jure and freedoms practiced. Human capabilities are the best metric to measure social well-being. Image
7. Stamped from the Beginning, by @DrIbram. You can't really understand American political life without a deep perspective of the history of racism in America. goodreads.com/review/show/22… Image
8. Disadvantage, by @JoWolffBSG and Avner de-Shalit. This creative study discusses how disadvantage in society can cluster in "corrosive disadvantages" -- ills that create more ills. Complementary concept of "fertile functionings". goodreads.com/review/show/19… Image
9. Justice and the Politics of Difference by Iris Marion Young. Young's "five faces of oppression" is a rough and ready framework that I find more useful now than when I read the book originally. goodreads.com/review/show/16… Image
10. Capitalism For and Against: A Feminist Debate. Specifically the portions by Ann Cudd. Cudd offers a qualified defense of capitalism on feminist terms and an attractive model for what a feminist capitalism could be. goodreads.com/review/show/21… Image
11. Black Rights/White Wrongs, by Charles W Mills. Mills gives us a glimpse of what could be: a radical liberalism that really grapples with racial and gender injustice in our lived, very non-ideal society in a way that rectifies historical injustice. goodreads.com/review/show/21… Image
12. The Primacy of Politics, by Sheri Berman. A history of social democracy in Europe and how it emerged from revisionist Marxism. Also a pretty strong case for social democracy. Image
13. The Constitution of Liberty, by Friedrich Hayek. I still think of myself as some kind of Hayekian. Hayek's defense of freedom as the means to discover the things we didn't know we wanted always stuck with me. Image
14. The Tyranny of the Ideal, by Gerald Gaus. Kinda the nail in the coffin for ideal theory in my view. Gaus's ideas about perspectival diversity are rich. Lately I've wished Gaus would've engaged with Iris Young. Someone should smoosh these two together. goodreads.com/review/show/16… Image
15. Free Market Fairness, by John Tomasi. A smash-up of Rawls & Hayek, correcting Hayek's mistake that social justice requires rigid, illiberal enforcement of a patterned distribution. I argued for free market fairness replacing Rawls with capabilities: sweettalkconversation.com/2016/10/27/fre… Image
16. Down Girl: the Logic of Misogyny, by @kate_manne. Patriarchy is a *moral* order & like all stable moral orders, it incl. punishment for normative deviation: misogyny. Her redefinition of misogyny as the reality women* under patriarchy face is fertile. goodreads.com/review/show/27… Image
17. The Captured Economy, by @lindsey_brink and Steven Teles. A liberal democratic application of public choice theory to certain problems afflicting America today that resists libertarian pitfalls common to public choice. @capturedecon goodreads.com/review/show/24… Image

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3 Oct
Very happy to see Jacobin running a piece on how the liberals aren't the enemy. It seems in the spirit of the liberal socialism of Carlo Rossi.
The article is short on specifics, but that's probably for the best. I tend to think of this project as one of mutual, suspicious recognition, where one ensemble of *mostly* acceptable policies encounters the other ensemble of mostly tolerable policies in legislative compromise.
Much of the progress in forming a liberal-socialist coalition on specific policy areas can come from socialists and liberals reaching the same reforms but formulating them in their own respective rhetoric. And possibly gaining greater appreciation for the resources of the other.
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29 Sep
Just a couple examples of this.

On the Panpsychist podcast one of the hosts asks about the ethics of sex work. Manne gives an answer about the difficulty of living as a woman under patriarchy with fraught options. 1/
This is a good answer as far as it goes, but the book is about male entitlement. The more interesting question about sex work is does it imply an objectionable entitlement to sex? This seems like a hard problem for Manne's framework, especially considering male sex workers. 2/
Similarly, Manne sends a footnoted "pace Srinivasan" to @amiasrinivasan's truly outstanding essay on the question "Does anyone have a right to sex?" I would love to read Manne's considerations on it. 3/ lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v40/…
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29 Sep
This review can be summarized as "If you don't already believe some basic supporting set of feminist claims, then Entitled will not convince you." Indeed, Manne didn't set out to prove to the satisfaction of men's rights activists that feminism has value. Short thread.
2. That said, the authors seem to have quite an axe to grind. No one without ulterior, cynical motives could come away from reading Entitled thinking that Kate Manne is a sex-negative, "carceral feminist." ImageImage
3. She *draws attention* to the tension of pointing out relative lack of punishment against the background of an otherwise overly carceral, retributive society.
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23 Sep
Everyone needs to read this article by Barton Gellman. "Trump will concede defeat under no circumstances" should be treated as axiomatic. Short thread with key bits. 1
We should expect to see this and be prepared for it. Prepared how? I have no idea. 2 Image
3. Wisconsin has a particularly lawless set of Republicans controlling the legislature. This makes me think we can't count on Wisconsin regardless of the polling there. Image
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21 Sep
He's never joking. He's getting his supporters used to the idea. Trump has no intention of leaving power. We know he's already cheating to do so--that's what his impeachment was all about. And with a 6-3 Republican court, anything Trump does is Constitutional. Image
At this point I'm just assuming Trump will win, or "win". Democrats are powerless to do anything about it. Republicans will further corrode voting rights, and withhold federal funds from Democratic states, and DHS will occupy Democratic cities.
Even if Biden wins and Trump leaves, he'll be able to accomplish nothing with a 6-3 Republican Court and obstructionist Senate. If we win the Senate, we'll be so worried about what Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema and some racist in a diner think to counter built-in GOP advantages.
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14 Sep
I appreciate that Cory's language here is much more measured than you often see from the antivoting anarchist crowd. He admits voting *can* be useful, with "lower" (not zero) transformative potential. A few comments: 1/
Consider a "democracy of fear" perspective. Voting fascists into power is transformative! The power of direct action & mutual aid are sharply diminished in a fascist state. Some (not all) elections are event horizons. This may yet be true of 2016. It's still a risk for 2020. 2/
Voting may "reinforce the status quo and complacency" in the absence of thick democratic values of communication, getting informed, persuasion, and activism. Voters shouldn't think voting is *sufficient* (a "thin" democratic commitment). 3/
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