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David Lay Williams
Professor of Political Science at DePaul University and author of
The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx
(Princeton, 2024)
Elon Musk’s Cruel Moral Sentiments
April 3, 2025
David Lay Williams
Economy
Why We Should Worry about Inequality
January 11, 2023
David Lay Williams
Economy
The Wall Street Journal Resurrects Mandeville
September 27, 2022
David Lay Williams
Democracy
What Hobbes Can Teach Us About Trump’s Lawless Reign
December 1, 2020
David Lay Williams
Reviews
Lao-tzu, Plato, and
Parasite
February 28, 2020
David Lay Williams
Economy
David Brooks & Economic Inequality
January 23, 2020
David Lay Williams
Impeachment
Impeachment and Rousseau’s General Will
January 15, 2020
David Lay Williams