Thad Williamson

Thad Williamson is Associate Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law at the University of Richmond and co-editor of Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond. He has also served as inaugural director of the City of Richmond’s Office of Community Wealth Building.

Democracy in the Real World

Theories of justice map what a good society should look like, but they generally offer few details about how to get there.

  • Thad Williamson

The Almost Inevitable Failure of Justice

The persistence of black poverty has become a permanent feature of U.S. democracy. We need an expanded political imagination to dismantle it.

  • Thad Williamson

Free Market Fairness

Is there a moral case for free markets?

  • Martin O’Neill
  • Thad Williamson

Beyond the Welfare State

Rawls’s radical vision for a better America.

  • Martin O’Neill
  • Thad Williamson
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