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What is political theory

Daniel Overgaauw (Groningen): The Paradoxes of Liberty: the Freedom of Speech (Re-)Considered. From Essays on Philosophy, a special issue on the concept of "dirty hands". From Public Reason, Roman Altshuler (Stony Brook): Political Realism and Political Idealism: The Difference that Evil Makes; and a review of Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence by Adriana Cavarero. A review of Wittgenstein and Political Theory: The View from Somewhere by Christopher Robinson. A review of Rothbard vs. the Philosophers. Morality as a plus-sum game: Why libertarianism fails as a social policy. A review of Political Theologies: Public Religions in a Post-Secular World and Religion and Violence in a Secular World: Toward a New Political Theology. An interview with Thomas Pogge on global justice and health (and more by Pogge). The first chapter from Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire by Wendy Brown. A review of Constitutional Patriotism by Jan-Werner Muller. A review of Illusion of Consent: Engaging Carole Pateman. A review of Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic by John Protevi. Brendan Boyle reviews Politics and the Imagination by Raymond Geuss (and more). The first chapter from Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present by George Szpiro. A review of Reasonable Disagreement: A Theory of Political Morality by Christopher McMahon. A review of Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy by Bonnie Honig. From Telos, Ulrike Kistner on the Exception and the Rule: Fictive, Real, Critical. A review of What is Political Theory and Why do We Need It? by Rajeev Bhargava. A review of Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy by Robert Pippin.