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Good morning everyone! I have an announcement to make! I have created a website! Announcing The Evening Constitutional: Musings of a Consulting Constitutional Philosopher! the-evening-constitutional.ghost.io

The Evening Constitutionalthe-evening-constitutional.ghost.io Musings of a Consulting Constitutional Philosopher

For now it's basically a blog/newsletter about constitutional law and political theory, an outlet for some of my thinking that's too big for a tweet but not quite big enough for a journal article haha the-evening-constitutional.ghost.io/hello/

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...

But in due course I may also have somewhat grander ambitions. I envision like... video lectures about constitutional law? Maybe? And/or a library of treatise-style posts about different topics in con law? How much I am able to do any of that will of course depend on how much support the site gets

Now you may be asking, "What's a consulting constitutional philosopher?" Good question! It's... me, basically 😅 The consulting part is a nod to Sherlock Holmes's self-styled title "consulting detective." As for constitutional philosophy, well... the-evening-constitutional.ghost.io/what-is-cons...

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...

Thanks, this sounds fun! It surprised me the first time I heard political philosopher Martha Nussbaum characterize her primary interest as “constitutional law” but I quickly understood that this is how she meant it (2:52 in this clip): youtu.be/AoD-cjduM40?...

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.