Reconsidering Reparations

Reconsidering Reparations. By Olúfẹ́mi O.Táíwò, (Oxford University Press, 2022). Pp. xii + 261, Amazon Kindle edition)

 Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, who teaches philosophy at Georgetown University, has a very different view of justice from ours. We believe that justice is based on the libertarian rights of self-ownership and Lockean appropriation, expressed in laws that apply to everyone and do not discriminate between different classes of people.

Táíwò, by contrast, is a proponent of what Thomas Sowell c...