Competing Values
William Galston November 13, 2006 - 5:40pm
Is Democracy Possible Here?
Principles for a New Political Debate
Ronald Dworkin
Princeton University Press, $19.95, 192 pp.
Ronald Dworkin is a distinguished legal philosopher who also participates actively in academic debates concerning moral and political philosophy. As a longtime contributor to the New York Review of Books, he also comments regularly, as a public intellectual, on questions of policy and politics. Is Democracy Possible Here? represents a fusion of these modes-an effort to reconfigure American political discourse around basic moral...
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