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Enforceability, Legitimacy, and the Right to do Wrong

https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/27536/

Published: September 3, 2026 13:44

This article addresses the puzzle of enforceability: why are some moral duties enforceable and others not—and which are which? After raising doubts about “duty-first” approaches that approach the puzzle by going through moral duties taken to be…

Second Personal Politics and Political Authenticity

https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/28060/

Published: September 2, 2026 01:57

Authenticity is widely invoked as a central force in modern politics. Yet contemporary philosophical accounts usually portray authenticity as a distinctly individualistic ideal, arising from a Romantic view of the self. The puzzle arises, I argue, because…

Political Theory with Ethnographic Sensibility as a Democratic Praxis

https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/27676/

Published: August 22, 2026 02:43

Should political theorists engage in ethnographic fieldwork? This paper offers a new argument in favor of adopting an ethnographic sensibility: it helps ‘democratize’ political theory in two ways. First, ethnographic sensibility enables theorists to…

Legal Lynching, Artificial Virtues and To Kill a Mockingbird

https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/25097/

Published: August 19, 2026 08:55

Theoretical and empirical work provides us with multiple models for explaining why people perpetrate or are complicit in injustice, and a familiar taxonomy distinguishes models of injustice which appeal to common or collective individual psychologies from…

Intimate Partner Violence, Security, and the State

https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/27544/

Published: August 15, 2026 02:43

I defend a security-based account of how the state should address intimate partner violence. Protection of basic security against violence must have a high priority in liberalism. Violence in intimate relationships is a widespread threat to security;…

Vindictive Tolerance: The Philosophical Anatomy of a Political Pathology

https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/30207/

Published: August 12, 2026 05:03

This article develops the concept of “vindictive tolerance” to describe a political pathology in which the language and institutional apparatus of tolerance, rights, and the rule of law are weaponized to punish opponents. Working from a liberal…

Debate: Paternalism and Autonomy

https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/30192/

Published: August 5, 2026 04:58

Some of the most intuitive and deeply held objections to paternalism point to autonomy. A central claim is that paternalism is objectionable even if it improves people’s lives, because it does not treat people as adults or with respect. To know whether…

The Cognitive Corruption of Markets

https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/27804/

Published: July 30, 2026 05:47

Markets are often portrayed as amoral realms of self-interest, yet empirical evidence shows that people in market societies consistently act morally. What explains the discrepancy? I argue that market participants tend to exhibit behaviors that track moral…

Taking Heed: Between Consideration and Deference

https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/25630/

Published: July 29, 2026 01:11

Some theorists maintain that democracy is a condition in which citizens have authority over matters of common concern. But just what kind of authority citizens have proves difficult to describe. Understood strongly—say, as a claim to deference—this…

Legibility and Contestability: Opaque Power, Misattribution, and Fascist Closure

https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/28430/

Published: July 21, 2026 06:02

Contemporary power is often opaque. People may be made vulnerable by arrangements whose sources and mechanisms are difficult to identify. This article argues that opaque power raises a problem of political legibility: agents need some practically usable…