The Independent Review Magazine - Summer 2019

In this issue

Is ‘social justice’ a valid concept for assessing society’s rules and norms? Or does it enable injustice, coercion, and wrongdoing? Contributors weigh in, offering insights on the right to opt out; the nature of Western justice; the moral implications of rent-seeking narratives; Hayek versus Rawls; Aristotle and Aquinas on civil society; social justice’s nominalism problem; social gains from trade; unfair societal rules, and more.

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