The Social Contract
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He is currently the director of The Social Contract and host of the “White Flag with Joe Walsh” podcast.
From Salon ● May 20, 2025
Tanton also published and, for many years, edited The Social Contract, a magazine that served as a clearinghouse for his ideas.
From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2024
The tension between state authority and the right of individuals to make decisions for themselves likewise inspired the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose contributions to Enlightenment philosophy included his influential treatise The Social Contract.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
The man who most changed that was Roy Beck, who spent several years as Washington editor of The Social Contract, Dr. Tanton’s journal.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2011
The Social Contract showed to those who were eager to be convinced that no power was legitimate which was guilty of abuses.
From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann
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