Cass Sunstein: belief

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…Now, there was a tweet you had today or yesterday, where you mentioned some liberal thinkers, where you’re going to be talking about them at some other event. I think it was Joseph Raz, Ullmann-Margalit, John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, Jeremy Waldron, right? Great people. They’ve passed away, or they’re much older. If you look at people, say, below the age of 50, 45 — you pick the number — is liberal thought replenishing itself where there’s a new generation that will be comparable to them, to you, to many others? Or is it like an over-60 kind of thing? It’s a great question. If you look at Philosophy & Public Affairs, which is a journal, which for a while, was setting the standard for philosophical work on liberalism, it was full of Rawls and Rawls criticism, and some of the work was fantastically good. Thomas Nagel was a frequent contributor. I think the great liberal thinkers now who are younger may be in the social sciences. Ed Glaeser isn’t particularly young. I consider him a great — He’s great. I had dinner with him last night, but he’s not that young.…

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