Piketty and Sandel on the Politics and Philosophy of John Rawls

Should Rawls have gone to bat for egalitarian conclusions about day-to-day politics? And, if so, does his failure to do so have anything to do with more general flaws in his framework?

I’ve been reading Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel’s new book Equality: What It Means and Why it Matters. It’s a back-and-forth dialogue between the two thinkers, with Sandel mostly acting as the interviewer but the roles sometimes flipping around. I’ll save any larger thoughts for the review I’ll be writing elsewhere. I wanted to talk here, though, ab…