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Re-Reading A Theory of Justice

Is there anything new left to say about A Theory of Justice?

In this brief paper I reflect on this question, on the basis of re-reading the text fifty years since John Rawls first published it, and twenty-five years since I first encountered it as an undergraduate.

In the journal Polity, online first (2021). You can read it here:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/716248#