The Evening Constitutionalthe-evening-constitutional.ghost.io Musings of a Consulting Constitutional Philosopher
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Hello!the-evening-constitutional.ghost.io Welcome to The Evening Constitutional: Musings of a Consulting Constitutional Philosopher! This site is meant to be an outlet for me to share my thoughts about issues of constitutional law and politic...
What is Constitutional Philosophy?the-evening-constitutional.ghost.io This site's tagline declares it the "musings of a constitutional philosopher." But what is a constitutional philosopher? Well naturally enough it's someone engaged in constitutional philosophy. But wh...
On Social Media Regulation and the First Amendmentthe-evening-constitutional.ghost.io Last week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a piece of legislation restricting the use of "addictive feeds" by social media companies. This set off a ritualistic bit of Discourse about how these ...
Creating Capabilitiesyoutu.be If a country's Gross Domestic Product increases each year, but so does the percentage of its people deprived of basic education, health care, and other opportunities, is that country really making progress? If we rely on conventional economic indicators, can we ever grasp how the world's billions of individuals are really managing? In this video and in her new book, CREATING CAPABILITIES, Martha Nussbaum argues that our dominant theories of development have given us policies that ignore our most basic human needs for dignity and self-respect. As an alternative to metrics like GDP, Nussbaum and the other members of the Human Development and Capability Association suggest that we should be asking what each human is actually capable of being and doing. CREATING CAPABILITIES is now available in paperback. Visit http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674072350 for details.