Steven Pittz I would like to begin this final reply by thanking Professors Owen and Meyer for their thoughtful comments on my initial essay . I also thank Jason Kuznicki at Cato for the oppor...
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2021/09/30/steven-pittz/some-final-replies-owen-meyer
Matthew Meyer I want to thank Steven Pittz for his thoughtful comments on my response essay . He addresses a number of my concerns, and he provides much to reflect upon. That said, I think he ...
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2021/09/24/matthew-meyer/will-free-spirit-be-liberal-spirit
David Owen In his essay and his initial reply to my response, Steven Pittz is at pains to emphasize that there is a spiritual dimension to liberalism and that our understanding of liberal freed...
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2021/09/21/david-owen/free-spirit-vocations
Steven Pittz Is it appropriate at all to use Nietzsche’s ideas in defense of liberalism? This question seems to be at the heart of Matthew Meyer’s response essay , and I will try to answer ...
Steven Pittz In his response essay, David Owen presents a counterargument to the question of whether society needs free spirits , as well as offering insights into how spiritual freedom might b...
Matthew Meyer I’d like to begin by congratulating Prof. Pittz on his new book, Recovering the Liberal Spirit: Nietzsche, Individuality and Spiritual Freedom. As I understand it, his book is t...
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2021/09/07/matthew-meyer/are-free-spirits-too-free-liberal-order
David Owen Steven Pittz’s plea for liberal attention to spiritual freedom and his account of the significant role that free spirits may play in a liberal polity belongs to a strain of libera...
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2021/09/02/david-owen/free-spiritedness
Steven Pittz What do free individuals do for a society? I am grateful for the opportunity to answer the question, as I also explore this theme in my own work, principally Recovering the Liberal...
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2021/08/31/steven-pittz/what-use-has-society-free-spirit
Peter Skerry Benjamin Powell and Alex Nowrasteh entitle their book Wretched Refuse? The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions. Yet at no point do they define or explain what they m...
Eric Kaufmann I appreciate Benjamin Powell’s considered response to my piece on the risks of ethnic fractionalization, and a subsequent response to Peter Skerry’s important essay . I thi...
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2021/08/03/eric-kaufmann/immigration-restriction-liberal-democracy