Is Egalitarianism Dead?: A Problem for Socialists—and Others too

What follows is something I feel uncomfortable writing, to some degree uncomfortable even thinking. Growing up on R.H. Tawney’s Equality, I have always believed that some form of egalitarianism-it may be hard to say just what form-is simply definitive of socialism. If socialists aren’t egalitarians, what on earth might they be? Nor are my (perhaps idiosyncratic) doubts about egalitarianism the same as everyone’s doubts about the “new world order.” With the...