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Jonathan Chaplin Apr 24, 2009

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A new take on Tory

In these days of ideological confusion, we are all scrambling to make sense of a political landscape more fluid and difficult to map than anything since the 1930s.

Jonathan Chaplin Mar 1, 2006 City & country

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“Street-level Justice”: governing metropolitan public space

What have bus purchases, or garbage collection, or zoning laws, got to do with lofty principles like justice? Just give me a bit more efficiency and I’ll go quietly. Issues of efficiency can’t be neatly cordoned off from issues of distribution, of access, of sustainability, of opportunity, of security, and of voice. It’s all about ordering the urban public realm justly, and it’s more relevant than most people think.

Blessed Be the Ties That Bind (continued)

Jonathan Chaplin Nov 1, 2004

Blessed Be the Ties That Bind (continued)

Continued from part 1... As civil society discourse began to re-enter the currency of political debate a decade or two ago, historians of political thought reminded protagonists that the term in its modern sense goes back at least to the eighteenth century. Before...

Blessed Be the Ties That Bind

Jonathan Chaplin Oct 1, 2004

Blessed Be the Ties That Bind

Civil society is currently a topic of vigorous intellectual disagreement. On the one hand, it is celebrated as the source of numerous social goods: a key to the sustenance of social capital; a necessary contributor to the renewal of liberal democracy; an indispensable...

Jonathan Chaplin May 1, 2004

Lessons from Old Europe

The U.S. government is not currently well-disposed to take political lessons from what Donald Rumsfeld has memorably dubbed Old Europe, least of all from France. And the recent vote of the French National Assembly to ban the wearing of headscarves by Moslem girls in public schools has hardly helped to mitigate American suspicions about the political wisdom of the current French establishment.