Karl Widerquist, an Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s SFS-Qatar, made headlines this week for his advocacy in support of universal basic income. Wilderquist has been critiqued in the past for his staunch support of socialism and past endorsements of socialist political candidates in the United States.
Professor Wilderquist studies political philosophy with a specialization the area of distributive justice— what he calls “the ethics of who has what.” Wilderquist authored a number of research papers and books based upon socialist ideas and was a founding editor of the journal “Basic Income Studies.” Despite his lifelong advocacy in support of a […]
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