Abstract
December 2017
As 2017 closes, I note with sadness the death of Benjamin R. Barber in April. Barber joined the Political Theory editorial team in the journal’s second year, in May 1974, and he served as Editor through the November 1983 issue. The issues that appeared during that decade amount to an education in the field; they include, in addition to landmark essays, a series of electric symposia and exchanges on topics that range from Strauss’s interpretation of Machiavelli to “Sex, Class, and the Market.” Describing political philosophy as “the great conversation,” Barber’s final “Letter from the Editor” spoke both to his time and to ours. He warned against the dangers of parochialism—geographic and intellectual—and concluded that he hoped “that we will never stop talking to one another—and never stop listening to one another.”
I would also like to mark the end of the year by thanking the colleagues who reviewed manuscripts, often more than once, between September 1, 2016, and September 1, 2017. We all understand that our work depends on serious, critical, generous readers. But I have been awed in many cases by the care with which colleagues have crafted reports that are both incisive and generative. At the risk of omitting someone by mistake, let me offer thanks to:
Andreas Albertsen, Paul Apostolidis, Banu Bargu, Emily Beausoleil, Susan Bickford, Thomas Biebricher, Richard Boyd, P. J. Brendese, Kevin Cherry, Jeffrey Church, George Ciccariello-Maher, Davina Cooper, Glen Coulthard, Aurelian Craiutu, Barbara Cruikshank, Nicole Curato, Joshua Foa Dienstag, Sandra den Otter, Alfonso Donoso, Andrew Douglas, Diane Enns, Laura Ephraim, Evan Farr, James Farr, Michael Feola, Kathy Ferguson, Michaele Ferguson, Edmund Fong, Shawn Fraistat, Jill Frank, Stephan Fuchs, Nigel Gibson, Farah Godrej, Katherine Gordy, Jeffrey Green, Ayten Gündoğdu, Debra Hawhee, Mary Hawkesworth, Clarissa Rile Hayward, Burke Hendrix, Samantha Hill, Alexander Keller Hirsch, Christopher Holman, Jyl Josephson, Vincent Jungkunz, Demetra Kasimis, Frank Kirkland, Jimmy Casas Klausen, Hagar Kotef, Simon Kow, Hélène Landemore, Chad Lavin, Bronwyn Leebaw, Jill Locke, Tommy Lott, Nancy Love, Nancy Luxon, Stephen Macedo, Eric MacGilvray, Tom Malleson, Shannon Mariotti, Patchen Markell, Lori Marso, Dean Mathiowetz, Lida Maxwell, Keally McBride, Howard McGary, David McIvor, Benjamin McKean, Annie Menzel, John Meyer, Sara Monoson, Adam Moore, Jeanne Morefield, Andrew Murphy, Ella Myers, Andrew Norris, Anne Norton, Aletta Norval, Johanna Oksala, Daniel O’Neill, Anthony Pagden, Davide Panagia, Monicka Patterson-Tutschka, Erin Pineda, Heather Pool, Neil Roberts, Christopher Robinson, Jennifer Rubenstein, Rachel Sanders, William Scheuerman, Joel Alden Schlosser, Torrey Shanks, George Shulman, Gabriella Slomp, Jeff Spinner-Halev, Alison Stone, Shannon Sullivan, Ronald Sundstrom, Lucas Swaine, Nicholas Tampio, Owen Thomas, Shatema Threadcraft, Keith Topper, Joan Tronto, Alex Tuckness, Jack Turner, Inés Valdez, Nina Valiquette Moreau, Antonio Vázquez-Arroyo, Miguel Vatter, Christian Volk, Nancy Wadsworth, Georgia Warnke, Stephen K. White, Jessica Whyte, Kyle Powys Whyte, Joseph Winters, and Clare Woodford.