Taking Rights Seriously: With a New Appendix, a Response to Critics

Is Democracy Possible Here?: Principles for a New Political Debate

Politics in America are polarized and trivialized, perhaps as never before. In Congress, the media, and academic debate, opponents from right and left, the Red and the Blue, struggle against one another as if politics were contact sports played to the sho

Law's Empire

With the incisiveness and lucid style for which he is renowned, Ronald Dworkin has written a masterful explanation of how the Anglo-American legal system works and on what principles it is grounded. Law's Empire is a full-length presentation of his theory

Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality

Equality is the endangered species of political ideals. Even left-of-center politicians reject equality as an ideal: government must combat poverty, they say, but need not strive that its citizens be equal in any dimension. In his new book Ronald Dworkin

Life's Dominion

One of the country's most distinguished scholars presents a brilliantly original approach to the twin dilemmas of abortion and euthanasia, showing why they arouse such volcanic controversy and how we as a society can reconcile our values of life and indiv

Religion Without God

Originally delivered as the Einstein lectures at Bern University on 12–14 December 2011.The text of a draft of the lectures, presented on 8 December 2011 in the Colloquium in Legal, Political and Social Philosophy at NYU School of Law coordinated by Ron

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Justice for Hedgehogs

Develops original theories on a variety of issues, including: moral skepticism, literary, artistic, and historical interpretation, free will, ancient moral theory, being good and living well, liberty, equality, law, more.