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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
Michelle Chun
The Pragmatic Locke: On the “Two Lockes” Problem and Waldron’s Christian Egalitarianism
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
Samuel Mead
The Telos of Wise Legislation: Virtue and Death in Plato’s Laws I and II
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
Shinkyu Lee
Beyond Truth: A Politics of Reality in Arendt and Bonhoeffer
Tejas Parasher (Open Access)
“A Self-Conscious Asia”: R. K. Mukerjee on Self-Determination
Lindsay Mahon Rathnam (Open Access)
Saying What Is: Herodotus in Hannah Arendt’s Thought
Matheson Stuart Russell and David Kelley (Open Access)
Democracy and Rule over Others: The Boundary Problem and the Limits of Collective Self-Rule
Wan Ning Seah (Open Access)
Civil Religion and Political Freedom in Rousseau’s Social Contract
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 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
A Symposium on Melvin Rogers’s The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought
Jack Turner (Open Access)
Introduction
Erin Pineda (Open Access)
The Problem-Space of Democratic Faith
Paul Taylor (Open Access)
Breadth and Depth, Perfectionism and Paradox: Reading Black Politics by a Darkened Light
Melvin Lee Rogers (Open Access)
The Luminosity of Faith: A Response to my Readers
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
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
Scholarly Exchange
Bryan Cheang and Daniel Ho (Open Access)
Liberal Polycentrism in East Asia: Not “Small” or “Big,” but Bottom-Up - Response to Sungmoon Kim
Sungmoon Kim (Open Access)
Confucians Don’t Want to Live in a Small World: Reply to Cheang and Ho
Book Review Essays Volume 88
Katherine Bermingham
The Fight for Hannah Arendt’s Soul
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
Deborah Bergoffen's Review of Lori Jo Marsco: Feminism and the Cinema of Experience
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
Brent Edwin Cusher's Review of Robert A. Ballingall: Plato's Reverent City: The Laws and the Politics of Authority
Jonathan Den Hartog's Review of Steven D. Smith: The Godless Constitution and the Providential Republic
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
A.P. Martinich's Review of Paul DeHart: The Social Contract in the Ruins
Samuel Moyn's Review of George Crowder: Isaiah Berlin in the Twenty-First Century: Liberal Pluralism for Troubled Times
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
Ned O'Gorman's Review of Tom Arnold-Forster: Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography
Anthony Peacock's Review of Harvey Flaumenhaft: The Framework of the Federalist: Visualizing the Structure of the Argumentation
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
Robert Basil Talisse's Review of Bob Pepperman Taylor: Liberal Education and Democracy
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