What We Talk About When We Talk About Inequality

Some reflections on G.A. Cohen's luck egalitarianism, my dialogue last Tuesday with socialist philosopher Christine Sypnowich, and what it is exactly that egalitarians should be trying to equalize.

On Tuesday, I was lucky enough to get to spend an hour chatting about justice with socialist philosopher Christine Sypnowich. The Boston Review just published a forum in its print issue (now also available online) called, “Is Equal Opportunity Enough?” Sypnowich wrote the main essay and Gina Schouten, Martin O’Neill, Nicholas Vrousalis, Anne Phillips, W…