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Articles Volume 88 

Timothy Berk (Open Access)
Rustic Republics and völkische Vaterländer: Rousseau and Heidegger’s Rural Political Visions

Bryan Cheang and Daniel Ho (Open Access)
Beyond Confucian Perfectionism and Democracy: The Cultural Knowledge Problem and Liberal Polycentrism in East Asia

Nicholas Devlin (Open Access)
Who Put Hegel Back into Marxism?

Robin Douglass and Edward Hall (Open Access)
Judith Shklar’s Ethos of Skeptical Vigilance

Mia Ferland and Sara MacDonald (Open Access)
Freedom and Politics in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline

Michael L. Frazer (Open Access)
Syllabi and Social Justice

Thomas Holman
Revisiting the Arendt-Voegelin Debate: Totalitarianism and Moral Reality

Bridget Wu Isenberg (Open Access)
“The Happiest of Mortals”: Prejudice and Montesquieu’s Project in The Spirit of the Laws

Tejas Parasher (Open Access)
“A Self-Conscious Asia”: R. K. Mukerjee on Self-Determination

Shinkyu Lee
Beyond Truth: A Politics of Reality in Arendt and Bonhoeffer

Lindsay Mahon Rathnam (Open Access)
Saying What Is: Herodotus in Hannah Arendt’s Thought

Aaron Alexander Zubia (Open Access)
Beyond Hume: Recovering the Scottish Enlightenment Background of James Madison’s Thought

Symposia Volume 88 

A Symposium on Daniel A. Bell’s The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University

Daniel A. Bell (Open Access)
Introduction

Chenyang Li (Open Access)
China’s Anti-Corruption Calls for Reform

Xinzhong Yao
Walking a Tightrope

Ellen Ying Zhang (Open Access)
A Non-Confessional Confession of a Confucian-Inspired Meritocrat

Daniel A. Bell (Open Access)
Author's Response

A Symposium on David Myer Temin’s Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought

Adam Dahl (Open Access)
Introduction

Burke Hendrix
Interpreting Indigenous Complexity

Timothy Bowers Vasko
Mapping Indigenous Political Theory

Jane Gordon (Open Access)
The Role of Sovereignty in Decolonization

Angélica María Bernal (Open Access)
Earth-Making Resistance in a World on Fire

David Myer Temin (Open Access)
Author's Response

A Symposium on Sungmoon Kim’s Confucian Constitutionalism: Dignity, Rights, and Democracy

Sungmoon Kim (Open Access)
Introduction

Chungjae Lee (Open Access)
Between Philosophy and Culture

N. W. Barber (Open Access)
Confucian Constitutionalism: From Top to Bottom

Winnie Sung (Open Access)
Thinning Out Ritual, Diluting Identity

Nicholas Tampio
Why Xunzi? A Dilemma for an East Asian Democratic Political Constructivist

David Owen (Open Access)
Civic Confucianism and Democratic Constitutionalism in East Asia

Sungmoon Kim (Open Access)
Response: Anticipating Democratic Self-Government in Confucian East Asia

Scholarly Exchange Volume 88

William J. Connell, Review of Harvey C. Mansfield's Machiavelli’s Effectual Truth

Harvey C. Mansfield, Response to William J. Connell's Friendly Strictures

William J. Connell, Reply to Harvey C. Mansfield's Friendly Strictures Redux

Book Review Essays Volume 88 

Jarrett Adrian Carty (Open Access)
Armed and Ruined Prophets of the Reformation

Ashley Gorham
Review Essay: Breaking the Spell of AI’s Fairy Tale Wish

Book Reviews Volume 88

Charles Barbour's Review of Michael Lazarus: Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx

Makella Brems' Review of Lida Maxwell: Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love

Christopher Justin Brophy's Review of James Bernard Murphy: Deification in Classical Greek Philosophy and the Bible

Stephen Howard Browne's Review of Sarah Kornfield: Invoking the Fathers: Dangerous Metaphors and Founding Myths in Congressional Politics

Anthony Burke's Review of Eduardo Mendieta: The Philosophical Animal: On Zoopoetics and Interspecies Cosmopolitanism

Jordon T. Cash's Review of  Keith E. Whittington: The Impeachment Power: The Law, Politics, and Purpose of an Extraordinary Constitutional Tool

Gregory M. Collins' Review of Ross Carroll: Edmund Burke and the Varieties of Misrule

Gregory M. Collins' Review of Lisa Herzog: The Democratic Marketplace: How a More Equal Economy Can Save our Political Ideals

Madeline Cronin's Review of Jared Holley: Rousseau’s Politics of Taste

Justin Dyer's Review of Jack M. Balkin: Memory and Authority

Andrew Erskine's Review of Thomas R. Martin: Phocion: Good Citizen in a Divided Democracy

Michael Grenke's Review of Heinrich Meier: Nietzsche’s Legacy: Ecce Homo and The Antichrist, Two Books on Nature and Politics

Kasper Hansen's Review of James S. Fishkin: Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?

Sidney Harring's Review of Keith Richotte Jr.: The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution

Edgar Landgraf's Review of Richard Schacht: Nietzsche Pursued: Toward a Philosophy for the Future

James Bernard Murphy's Review of Travis Curtright: The Controversial Thomas More: Politics, Polemics, and Prison Writings

Emily Nacol's Review of Robin Douglass: Mandeville’s Fable

Patrick  Riordan's Review of Mark Hoipkemier: The Price of the Common Good: Markets, Corporations, and Political Economy

Thomas E. Schneider's Review of Daniel J. Mahoney: The Persistence of the Ideological Lie: The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now

Kyle Scott's Review of Bruno Leipold: Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought

Feroz Mehmood Shah's Review of Michael Sonenscher: After Kant

Brandon Turner's Review of  John L. Callahan:  Man-Devil: The Mind and Time of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe

Kevin Vallier's Review of Gabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti: Politicizing Political Liberalism

Adam Woodhouse's Review of Anna Marisa Schön: Nations Before the Nation-State: Between City-State and Empire from Antiquity to the Present

Yufei Zhao's Review of Robert A. Carleo III: Humane Liberality: A Confucian Proposal