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“Reason and the Human Good” was presented
to the Social Science Seminar at the Institute for Advanced Study in April
1983. A revised version of it can be found in
"Politics and Reason: An Overview"
which is a précis of the project that began with my doctoral dissertation
and now comprises three book manuscripts described below.
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“Congress, The Presidency, and Democracy: Looking
Back” was published under the auspices
of the Bicentennial Commission in connection with a College-Community Forum
by that name, November 1989.
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“The
Moral Attraction of Relativism: A Critique."
was presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Political Science
Association in March 1990.
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"Making Historicism Safe for the Word or The Best
Offense is a Good Defense: A Critique of Rorty's Philosophy and Politics."
was presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association in April 1990.
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"How to Fight the Politics of Racism"
The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 20, 1990.
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“Graduate
School And Career Opportunities For Political Science Majors",
Political Science Department, UNC
Charlotte, 1991.
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Research Methods Laboratory Manual,
Political Science Department, UNC Charlotte, 1992.
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Public Goods, Political Liberalism and the Priority of
the Right over the Good" in Russian
translation in Questions of Philosophy published by the
Institute of Philosophy, Moscow, 1997. An earlier version was
presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association
in April 1994
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“Those
Who Can Teach", unpublished, 1996.
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"The Price of Freedom",
unpublished, 1996
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"It's Not All Negative",
unpublished, 1996
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“Liberal Democracy and Civic Culture:
Beyond Victorianism and Romanticism” was presented at the USA / Russia
Roundtable on Democratization at UNC Charlotte in March 1996.
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“Pragmatism,
Freedom and Critique: Beyond The Epistemological Strategy of Modernity”
was presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Political Science
Association in March 1996.
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"Desert, Entitlement, and Justice"
was presented at the annual meeting of the
American Political Science Association in September 1996.
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“Retesting Segal and Spaeth's Stare
Decisis Model” American Journal of Political Science, Volume 40,
number 4, November 1996 (with Saul Brenner).
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"The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth"
in Laura Duhan Kaplan and Laurence F. Bove, eds. Philosophical
Perspectives on Power and Domination (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press,
1997.)
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"How Much of Communitarianism is Left
(and Right)?" in Peter Augustine Lawler and Dale McConkey, eds.
Community and Political Thought Today (Praeger, 1998). An earlier
version was presented at a conference on Communitarianism and Civil Society
at Berry College on October 17, 1996.
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"Is
Democracy Stable? Compared to What?"
was presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association in August, 1998 (with Robert J. Mundt).
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“What Would a Liberal Communitarian
Polity Actually Look Like?” was be presented at the annual meeting of the
American Political Science Association in September 1998.
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“Three
Ends and a Beginning: Theory, Ideology, History and Politics”
was presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association in April 1999.
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“Civilization
and Its Contents: Platonic Reflections on Eros and the Culture Wars”
was presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association in September 1999. A revised version of this paper was presented
at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association in April
2000.
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“Principles
and Prudence: Reconciling Liberalism and Communitarianism"
was presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science
Association in April 2000. A revised version was presented at the annual
meeting of the American Political Science Association in September 2000.
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Screens, Doors, and Stairs: On John Ford’s The Last
Hurrah, forthcoming in Elizabeth
Kaufer, ed. Hollywood's Regime: How Television and Film Portray American
History, Politics, and Society (Palgrave). An earlier version was
presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association in September 2000.
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"Grading
Papers by Computer”
IH Writing, September 2000.
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“Teaching
Great Books on the Web”
in Cambridge. B. L., Kahn, S. Tompkins, D.P., and Yancey, K.B., eds.
Electronic Portfolios: Emerging practices in student, faculty, and
institutional learning. Washington, DC: American Association for Higher
Education, 2001
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“New
Acme Should Meet Needs of Community as Well as Corporation,”
Mt. Airy Times-Express, May 9,
2001.
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"Christianity in the Western Tradition,"
in Don Thompson, Darrel Colson, and J. Scott Lee, Universality and
History: Foundations of Core (University Press of America, 2002) An
earlier version was presented at the annual meeting of the Association for
Core Texts and Courses in April 2000.The link is to a slightly
expanded version of the published article.
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“Liberal
Virtue / Communitarian Virtue” was
presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association
in April 2002 and at the annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association in September 2002.
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“Misunderstandings
Abound in Cecilian Village Project,”
Chestnut Hill Local, January 18, 2003
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“Growing Up in a Catskills Hotel,” was
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society in March
2003.
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“Why we may have to fight,” Chestnut
Hill Local, March 13, 2003.
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“Political
Liberalism and the Search for Moral Consensus”
was presented at the annual meeting of the
Midwest Political Science Association in April 2003
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“R8:
We Are Not Out of the Woods Yet,”
Chestnut Hill Local, July 3, 2003
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“SEPTA
and Snidely Whiplash,”
The
Philadelphia Inquirer, July 9, 2003.
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“R8
Preservation Depends Upon Budget Deal,
Mt. Airy Times Express, August 6, 2003
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“Justice
and Responsibility for Self” was
presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association in September, 2003. I gave an earlier version of this paper at
the Southwest Political Science Association in March 1997.
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Inventing (and Un-inventing) West Mt. Airy,
Mt. Airy Times Express,
January 7, 2004
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"SEPTA’s bumpy
deficit-plagued road"
The
Philadelphia Inquirer, May 20,
2004
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“Put
SEPTA On The Rails With Slots,” The
Philadelphia Inquirer, June 28, 2004
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"Rebuilding our Neighborhoods Block by Block",
unpublished, August 2004
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“Democracy and Diversity: A theoretical argument based
upon the historical experience of the West Mt. Airy section of Philadelphia”
was written for an International Conference on Deliberative Democracy held
in Hangzhou, China in December 2004. It was published in Chinese translation
in 2005 in a book edited by Bao-Gang He. An earlier version was presented at
the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in 2003.
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“Understanding
the Johnson Street Dispute”
Mt. Airy Times Express and Germantown Courier, September 29, 2004. Also
published as “On Johnson Street, The Issue is Not Race,”
Philadelphia Public Record, October 7,2004.
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“SEPTA
is Beyond Band-Aid Fixes,” Mt. Airy
Times-Express and Germantown Courier, October 20, 2004 and Chestnut
Hill Local, October 21, 2004
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“We
Can’t Afford to Flunk Transit”
The Philadelphia Inquirer,
December 16, 2004
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Renewing Coalitions: Labor Community Groups and the
PTC,
Philadelphia Public Record, May 2005
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“Political
Posters, Incumbent Protection, and the Colors of Fall,”
Philadelphia Inquirer, May 19, 2005
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“The
Kind of WMAN We Need”
Mt. Airy Times Express, June, 2005
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“Trolleys,
the Public Good, and Political Will,
Chestnut Hill Local, June 16, 2005
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"Neighborhood Networks: Our Aims and Goals,
Philadelphia Public Record, August 18, 2005
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"Cherelle Parker is the Right Choice",
Chestnut Hill Local, September 8, 2005
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"Take That Mr. Steffens: We Are Content No More
Daily News, November 14, 2005
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“Ambiguity
in the Symposium: Is Socrates a Model for the Rest of Us?”
in
Craig J. N. DePaulo, Patrick Messina, and Marc Stier, eds. Ambiguity in
the Western Tradition, (Peter Lang, 2006).
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Editor’s Introduction in Craig J. N.
DePaulo, Patrick Messina, and Marc Stier, eds. Ambiguity in the Western
Tradition, (Peter Lang, 2006).
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An Afterthought on Ambiguity
in Craig J. N. DePaulo, Patrick Messina, and Marc Stier, eds. Ambiguity
in the Western Tradition, (Peter Lang, 2006)
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“Introduction
to Marc Stier at Large”
February 2, 2006
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"The
Reforms We Need Now," February 3,
2006
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“Response
to Horowitz” February 3, 2006
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“Gay
Marriage and Polygamy”
March 16, 2006
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“The
Slavery of Today”
February 2, 2006
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“Trolleys
and Buses”
February 3, 2006
-
“Athens
and Betty Friedan”
February 6th, 2006
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“A
Proposal to Ban Smoking”
February 6th, 2006
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“Gambling
and Its Alternatives at Wissahickon and Hunting Park”
February 7th, 2006”
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“I
Have Seen the Future of the Liberal / Progressive Wing of the Democratic
Party..”.
February 9th, 2006
-
“Academic
Freedom at Temple”
February 10th, 2006
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“The
Immoral Equivalent of Jim Crow”
February 13th, 2006
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“The
Potential and Danger of Gentrification”
February 16th, 2006
-
“How
to Keep The Promise of Gentrification”
February 16th, 2006
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"The Future of Progressive Politics in Pennsylvania,
Part 1: Success and Failure In Harrisburg"
February 24th, 2006
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"The Future of Progressive Politics in Pennsylvania, Part 2: What We Can
Learn From Governor Rendell’s Failures"
February 27th, 2006
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“The
Real Problem at Temple”
February 27th, 2006
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“The
Future of Progressive Politics in Pennsylvania, Part 3: We Progressives Can
Learn From Our Own Failures” March 7th,
2006
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“Alternate
Paths to Economic Growth,” March 7th,
2006
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“The
Future of Progressive Politics in Pennsylvania, Part 4: Republican Utopia,”
March 10th, 2006
-
“Casey
Tilts Further to the Right,” March
21st, 2006
-
“Stand
Up (or Sit Down) for the Minimum Wage,”
March 28th, 2006
-
“Is
Civil Disobedience Justified?,” April
3rd, 2006
-
“Improving
Transit,” April 30th, 2006
-
“Bob
Casey for Senate,” May 19th, 2006
-
“Housing
Trust Fund Shenanigans,” May 19th, 2006
-
“Don’t
Balance the Budget on the Poor,” May
24th, 2006
-
“Update
on the Working Families Wage Tax Rebate,”
May 31st, 2006
-
“A
Talk With Brett Mandel, Part I,” June
1st, 2006
-
“Against
Slots,” June 1st, 2006
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“What
We Lost Today and Why,” June 2nd, 2006
-
“A
Talk With Brett Mandel, Part II,” June
3rd, 2006
-
“Housing
Trust Fund Shenanigans, Continued,”
June 4th, 2006
-
“The
‘Debate’ Over Housing Reorganization,”
June 4th, 2006
-
“Why
We Should Make Voting Easier,” June
7th, 2006
-
“Housing
Trust Fund Testimony I: Don’t Divide the Trust Fund,”
June 10th, 2006
-
“Housing
Trust Fund Testimony II: The Power of Council,”
June 10th, 2006
-
“Saving
the Housing Trust Fund,” June 14th,
2006
-
“Advice
for Young People,” June 17th, 2006
-
“The
Case for Inclusionary Zoning,” Daily
News, June 19, 2006
-
“A
Half-Step Forward On Inclusionary Housing,”
Daily News, November, 2006 with Daniel Hunter
-
“Learning
from Jane Jacobs,” June 26th, 2006
-
“Gar
Alperovitz and the Next Left,” June
27th, 2006
-
Learning from The Minimum Wage Campaign
July 10th, 2006
-
“What
We Progressives Want,” July 16th, 2006
-
“We’re
All In This Together,” July 16th, 2006
-
“We’re
All In This Together in Philadelphia, Too,”
July 17th, 2006
-
“The
Politics of Hope,” July 18th, 2006
-
“Political
Disaster Strikes City Neighborhoods,”
July 21st, 2006
-
“Against
Independence,” July 27th, 2006
-
“Mad
Dogs and Democrats,” July 28th, 2006
-
“Did
Safe Streets Backfire?” July 28th, 2006
-
“Progressives
and Crime,” August 8th, 2006
-
“What
Does an Endorsement Mean?” August 12th,
2006
-
“More
on Public Financing,” August 22nd, 2006
-
“Why
We Need Public Financing of Political Campaigns”
August 26, 2006
-
“Reforming
Political Campaigns by Reducing the Cost of TV,”
September 26th, 2006
-
“Take
Action to Repeal Act 193,” September
26th, 2006
-
“Neighborhood
Networks at Fifteen Months,” September
28th, 2006
-
“Our
Breakfast With Congressman Brady,”
October 7th, 2006
-
“Individuals
and Systems In Philly Politics,”
October 9th, 2006
-
“Community
Based Economic Development Strategies I,”
October 9th, 2006
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“Community
Based Economic Development Strategies II,”
October 10th, 2006
-
“Progressives,
Nutter, and Crime,” October 14th, 2006
-
“RIP
CBGB,” October 17, 2006
-
“A
Major Victory?” October 18th, 2006
-
“What
Does Social Justice Mean for Philadelphia?”
October 24th, 2006
-
“Sewers,
Sustainability, and Social Justice,”
October 24th, 2006
-
“RIP
Red Auerbach,” October 29th, 2006
-
“The
Opportunity Before Us,” November 8th,
2006
-
“The
Transit Crisis Continues and the PTC is Back,”
November 25th, 2006
-
“You
Want to See Broken Politics: Just Look at the Casinos,”
December 5th, 2006
-
“Great
Expectations for Philly,” December 6th,
2006
-
“Central
Delaware Planning Process,” December
6th, 2006
-
“Let’s
Support a Vital Public Resource: Our Newspapers,”
December 6th, 2006
-
“Just
as We Thought: It Was Broken Politics All The Way Down,”
December 20th, 2006
-
“RIP,
James Brown,” December 26th, 2006
-
“A
Regional Tax Swap?”
December 31st, 2006
-
“Politics
as a Spiritual Quest,”
January 21st, 2007
-
“Finally,
Noticing the Bank Closings in Philadelphia,”
January 30, 2007
-
"Don't Break It Again! Fix it!,"
February 1, 2007
-
"Towards a Beautiful Politics: The Next Great City
Initiative". Penn Future Website,
originally posted on my blog on February 3, 2007
-
"Hope, Fear and Casinos,"
February 12, 2007
-
"The Politics of Fear and Costs of Corruption,"
February 12, 2007
-
"This Year, Politics In Philadelphia Is Going to be
Different," February 14, 2007
-
“We Deserve Better: A Council Ethics Agenda Beyond the
Committee of Seventy Proposal” February
18, 2007
-
“The Great U-Turn (On Casinos)” March 7, 2007
-
"How To Have Your Neighborhoods and Your Casinos, Too"
March 19, 2007
-
“Yes,
Virginia, There is a Progressive Movement in Philadelphia.”
March 17, 2007
-
"A Funny Thing Happened at a Tax Reform Forum,"
April 27, 2007
-
"The BPT, Once More With Feeling Or Why Progressives
Should Hate the BPT," April 27, 2007
-
"I Want The Best
Service: How to Save Hundreds of Lives with a Swish of a Pen,"
May 1, 2007
-
The Budget for the Bus...Goes Round and Round, Round
and Round. City Paper, May 30, 2007
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Save the SEPTA
Transfers!,
Daily News, July 17, 2007
