In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.

You hear that liberalism lacks an idea of the common good, but I think that's a mistake.

The idea of public reason isn't about the right answers to all these questions, but about the kinds of reasons that they ought to be answered by.

At best the principles that economists have supposed the choices of rational individuals to satisfy can be presented as guidelines for us to consider when we make our decisions.

Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.

The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.