Also, at 20 minutes in etc., Cohen, all the stuff about ‘expanding the pie’ gives the game away – Rawls’s difference principle IS a veiled apologia for trickle-down economics, provided that the trickle is ‘as big as possible’.

pompous self-promoting liberal BS, waste of time…

the Oakland civil disobedience was aimless, nothing like civil rights

“On September 17, 1969 I sent a letter to eleven senior members
of the philosophy profession, asking them to serve as co-signers
with me on a motion to be presented to the annual meeting of
the Eastern Division of the APA, calling for the establishment of
a Standing Committee on the Status of Women in the
Profession. Alice Ambrose and Morris Lazerowitz [who were
husband and wife] came on board, as did Justus Buchler [whose
wife taught philosophy], and Sue Larson and Mary Mothersill,
both of Barnard. Maurice Mandelbaum, who along with Lewis
White Beck had read my Kant manuscript for Harvard, was
sympathetic, but pointed out that as the incoming APA
president, if he signed he would be in the position of petitioning
himself. A good point. The great Classicist Gregory Vlastos also
said yes, as did Ruth Marcus, whom I knew from my Chicago
days, when she was at Northwestern. Morty White was
supportive, but declined to sign for fear that if the motion
passed, he would be expected to serve on the committee,
something he said he could not do because of writing
obligations. That left Jack Rawls, who declined to sign. In
retrospect, this does not surprise me. Although Jack was on his
way to becoming the world’s leading expert on justice, he never
seemed to be there when action was needed. I was reminded of
the great story [possibly apocryphal] about Karl Marx. whose
mother is reputed to have said, “I wish Karl would write less
about capital and make some.” The motion passed, and my old
student, Margaret Wilson, was elected the first Chair of the new
Standing Committee. “