The rise of state dissidence has challenged the hegemony of Western liberalism on the international relations stage. Russia’s ongoing involvement in the Ukraine crisis is a case in point. Russia’s dissidence threatens not only the already fragile European order, but also the potency of liberalism as a system of international norms. Hence, a great deal of attention has been given to trying to de...

John Gray, Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and the author of the book under review should not be confused with the John Gray who thinks that men are from Mars and women from Venus. Our man is a political philosopher, best known for a string of books on liberalism and a lot less sanguine about the prospects for humanity than his New Age namesake. In fact, perhaps ...

Aumann’s theorem states that no individual should agree to disagree under a range of assumptions. Political liberalism appears presuppose these assumptions with the idealized conditions public reason. We argue demonstrates they nevertheless cannot be simultaneously held what is arguably political liberalism’s most central tenet. That is, tenet reasonable pluralism, which implies we can rational...