Can politics move beyond a state of institutionalized aggression? Should liberalism be justified by appeals to a conception of the good or to public reason?

Kevin Vallier, Public justification versus public deliberation: the case for divorce, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 45, No. 2 (April 2015), pp. 139-158

Can politics move beyond a state of institutionalized aggression? Should liberalism be justified by appeals to a conception of the good or to public reason?

Vallier's critique of integralism can be generalized to apply to a variety of illiberalisms.

The No Alternative Objection

The fact that integralists command a following is frightening and requires everyone to learn more about why the movement is so dangerous. Kevin Vallier's book All the Kingdoms of the World is not a ba...

Concerning Legal Authority

Integralists will have to bite some hard bullets to maintain their position.

Research Group on Constitutional Studies LectureKevin Vallier, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University"From Counter-Reformation to ...

Listen to this episode from The Periphery from the Pulaski Institution on Spotify. Dr. Kevin Vallier is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University, where he directs their p...

A conversation with Kevin Vallier, All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism (Oxford UP).

The Israeli Tragedy Helps Us Imagine a New American Politics

A Jewish colleague once asked Harvard Law Professor Adrian Vermeule, “In a fully Catholic polity, the sort you would like to bring about, what would happen to me, a Jew”? “Nothing bad,” Vermeu...

Integralists should care. Transition issues threaten their ideal.

A review of Kevin Vallier's "All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism."

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