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The hurdle justice must clear

Terry Pinkard (Georgetown): Is Recognition a Basis for Social or Political Thought? From Les Ateliers de l’ethique, Will Colish (McGill): Doing Justice to Recognition; and a special section on liberal neutrality, including Ian J. Carroll (Oxford): Neutrality and the Social Contract; Lendell Horne (Toronto): Liberal Neutrality: Constructivist, not Foundationalist; Alexa Zellentin (Oxford): Neutrality as a Twofold Concept; Mariano Garreta Leclercq (Buenos Aires): An Epistemic Argument in Support of Liberal Neutrality; Patrick Turmel (Laval): Are Cities Illiberal? Municipal Jurisdictions and the Scope of Liberal Neutrality; Oran Moked (Columbia): Perfectionism, Economic (Dis)Incentives, and Political Coercion; and Christopher Robert Lowry (CUHK): Beyond Equality of What: Sen and Neutrality. A review of Amartya Sen, ed. Christopher Morris. As Biko knew, powerlessness in actual lives is the hurdle justice must clear (and more and more on Sen). A review of Rawls's A Theory of Justice: An Introduction by Jon Mandle. Here are papers by T.M. Scanlon, Appiah, Minow and Singer, Waldron and others from a symposium on Ronald Dworkin's forthcoming book Justice for Hedgehogs. A review of Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists by Daniel Dorling. The introduction to Justice: Rights and Wrongs by Nicholas Wolterstorff. A review of The Moral Foundations of Social Institutions by Seumas Miller. Garry Runciman on his book Great Books, Bad Arguments: Republic, Leviathan and The Communist Manifesto. An excerpt from Another Freedom: The Alternative History of an Idea by Svetlana Boym. The many faces of 21st century integration: Mark Kingwell on values, the state and the crooked timber of humanity. Peter Berkowitz reviews Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty by Isaiah Berlin, ed. Henry Hardy.