Political theorist at DePaul and author of The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx (Princeton, 2024). Essays in NY Times, Washington Post, Time, Bloomberg, etc. Jazz Guitar, New York Mets.
David Lay Williams
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Delighted to share my guest essay from this morning's @nytimes.com opinion section. And kudos to the Times for their excellent artwork!
Here's what I have to say about Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
David Lay Williams
Surprising fact: my first ever publication (in Telos) was a critique of Habermas.
Excellent piece from @kaliholloway.bsky.social on the experience of American inequality today.
Excellent piece from @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social on recent developments in inequality.
Essays like this are why I began subscribing to the New Yorker decades ago. And while Habermas may have failed in his quest to save reason from darker forces, it was a worthy and necessary fight.
Be sure to check out @gorenlj.bsky.social's new book interview with @unlawfulentries.bsky.social!
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Ingrid Robeyns
Of all the numbers David Lay Williams has seen about Elon Musk’s new status as a trillionaire, “the one that struck me most forcefully was a calculation in The Times that Mr. Musk’s net worth is five million times as large as that of the average American family,” he writes.
Just as the ‘poverty line’ determines what’s required for basic living, we need a ‘wealth line’ to show when extreme wealth becomes harmful, says economist and philosopher Ingrid Robeyns
Just as the ‘poverty line’ determines what’s required for basic living, we need a ‘wealth line’ to show when extreme wealth becomes harmful, says economist and philosopher Ingrid Robeyns
I thank @gorenlj.bsky.social who has been a great interviewer for a decade now. Thanks for having me on! This pod is a great service to political science. Of course we talked a lot of legal history too given the nature of my book.
The great German philosopher, who died in March, understood how much depended on a principled public sphere.
