Reconsidering Reparations - LewRockwell

Reconsidering Reparations - LewRockwell: Reconsidering Reparations. By Olúfẹ́mi O.Táíwò, (Oxford University Press, 2022). Pp. xii + 261, Amazon Kindle edition)  Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, who teaches philosophy at Georgetown University, has a very different view of justice from ours. We believe that justice is based on the libertarian rights of self-ownership and Lockean appropriation, expressed in laws that apply to everyone and do not discriminate between different classes of people. Táíwò, by contrast, is a proponent of what Thomas Sowell calls cosmic justice. Sowell remarks: “However, unlike God at the dawn of Creation, we cannot simply say, “Let there be equality!” or “Let there be … Continue reading →