Richard Rorty’s 1998 book Achieving Our Country enjoyed a burst of attention after the 2016 elections. As law professor Lisa Kerr first observed, Rorty seemed to predict Donald Trump’s victory. He wrote that unless systematic economic inequality is addressed, people … will decide that the system has failed and start looking around for a strongman … Continue reading Richard Rorty, Cancel Culture, Political Fallibilism, and Achieving Our Country