In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon discusses Jeff McMahan’s thoughts on fighting in both just and unjust wars ...

I think our justice system is unjust. Worse, even the injustice is applied unjustly. The poor and disenfranchised are unlikely to get a fair shake. Moral philosopher John Rawls wrote in his Theory of ...

Who can be sued? A claim can be brought against any person who has been unjustly enriched at the expense of the state. There is no need for there to be a contractual relationship between the state and ...

Beyond Identity, by Omri Boehm, New York Review Books, 192 pages, $17.95 "We hold these truths to be self-evident," the ...

That war is almost always a calamity seems obvious. It was Ben Franklin who famously wrote that “there was never a good war or a bad peace,” but he said so in a letter written after the military ...

We live in an unjust world. Life isn’t fair. When I was a kid, I loved football. I planned to grow up to be a 6-foot-2, 185-pound quarterback. I ended up at 5-9 and 132 pounds. Lots of other boys were ...