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ABSTRACT
In this piece, Vallier responds to critiques of his 2020 book, Trust in a Polarized Age, offered by Mutz, Méon, Kukathas, and Weithman. He first restates the main argument of the book. Mutz and Méon offer criticisms to some of his empirical claims about polarization and trust; in response, Vallier concedes while stressing that one aim of the book is to develop an approach to defending liberal order that updates as these empirical literatures expand and improve. Much of the work Mutz and Méon discuss can be integrated into the book’s broader project. Kukathas and Weithman criticize Vallier’s normative claims, which Vallier defends.
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Kevin Vallier
Kevin Vallier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. His research focuses on the liberal tradition and liberal approaches to religion in politics and economic justice. He is the author of Liberal Politics and Public Faith: Beyond Separation (Routledge 2014), Must Politics Be War? Restoring Our Trust in the Open Society. (Oxford UP 2019), Trust in a Polarized Age (Oxford UP 2020). His next book, All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism, is forthcoming with Oxford UP Politics in 2023.