The Contemporary Condition

. . . is a blog produced by a group of political theorists who announced themselves here a year ago today. I know several of these folks and know of several others. While;e they are not people with whom I regularly rub elbows, theirs is an interesting and provocative enterprise. So, I thought I would call it to your attention.

New Blog ~ "In Focus" at The Atlantic

Last week I was in Utah and a smart woman I met there, Ella Myers, pointed out to me a new photography blog at The Atlantic. It is called "In Focus" and is run by her friend Alan Taylor (who previously ran "The Big Picture" at The Boston Globe). In any case, this is a welcome addition - combining a sharp eye and way better producti

on values than you'll ever see around here! - so stop by and check things out.

New Blogs: Robert Paul Wolff

I just discovered that political philosopher Robert Paul Wolff has been keeping not one, but two blogs. On one he is publishing his memoirs (which make many of those who inhabit the discipline of philosophy seem rather narrow and cramped), on the other he is addressing 'formal methods in political philosophy.' Early on, my undergraduate advisor Jim Fratto had me reading Wolff's The Poverty of Liberalism as well as A Critique of Pure Tolerance which he co-authored with Herbert Marcuse and Barrington Moore. In graduate school I subsequently read all or part of Wolff's incisive books on Marx, Kant, and Rawls. Indeed, prior to heading off to Chicago, I took a graduate seminar with Wolff at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) in which we read Marx, Freud and Mannheim.