Daniel Kuchler (SUNY-Albany): The Grammar of Republican Political Theory: A Critical Discussion of Arendt and Habermas. David Dyzenhaus (Toronto): Freedom Under an Order of Public Law: From Hobbes Through Hayek to Republicanism. Eoin Carolan (UCD): Recovering the Republic? Democratic Representation and the Theory of Mixed Government. Liberty before liberalism and all that: Quentin Skinner is a deep-fried political historian who thinks all the time about the philosophy and history of liberty from Ancient Roman times through to the present. Mark Fisher reviews Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Rousseau by John Plamenatz. Taking back the economy: Philip Pettit on the market as a Res Publica. A North Star for hard times: The key principle of civic republicanism is to minimise domination wherever it is found; the Zapatero governments in Spain showed how this idea can shape the policies of nation states.
