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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.
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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!
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David Lay Williams
Here's what I have to say about Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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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.
Excellent piece from @kaliholloway.bsky.social on the experience of American inequality today.
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Be sure to check out @gorenlj.bsky.social's new book interview with @unlawfulentries.bsky.social!
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
Is it bad that Elon Musk has a trillion dollars? Yes, and here’s why | Ingrid Robeyns
www.theguardian.com
Surprising fact: my first ever publication (in Telos) was a critique of Habermas.
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.
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Excellent piece from @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social on recent developments in inequality.
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The great German philosopher, who died in March, understood how much depended on a principled public sphere.
www.newyorker.com
Jürgen Habermas Defended Reason in a Darkening Age
The majority of Americans are actively stressed about money. The rich have never been richer. No wonder we’re so mad.
www.washingtonpost.com
Americans are reaching a financial breaking point
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David Lay Williams
journal.telospress.com
The philosopher made a radical proposal about wealth.
nyti.ms
Dialogical Theories of Justice
Opinion | Elon Musk Is Too Rich. We’ve Known That Since Plato.
David Lay Williams
David Lay Williams
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
www.theguardian.com
Is it bad that Elon Musk has a trillion dollars? Yes, and here’s why | Ingrid Robeyns
David Lay Williams
Ingrid Robeyns
David Lay Williams
New York Times Opinion
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.
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Anna O. Law
Outstanding @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode with @unlawfulentries.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Podcast Episode · New Books in Political Science · June 18 · 47m
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Anna O. Law, "Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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