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Jean Bethke Elshtain

Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago, is author, most recently, of Sovereignty: God, State, and Self.

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Joseph Carens’s defense of amnesty for irregular migrants is written with generosity of spirit and purpose. It helped me understand why incessant repetition of the term “illegal immigrants” is so grating, being...
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Let’s begin with two claims about American political culture. First, America is defined primarily as the “land of liberty.” Our current war against terrorism of global reach is named “Operation Enduring Freedom,”...
Jean Bethke Elshtain
In the lingo of the 1960s: right on! Meares and Kahan help to expose the false and tendentious bad faith that now, all too often, animates absolutist libertarians, who seem more interested...
Jean Bethke Elshtain

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