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On the Duty To Disobey Unjust Commands

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Radical Universalism: Beyond Identity, by Omri Boehm, New York Review Books, 192 pages, $17.95
"We hold these truths to be self-evident," the Declaration of Independence famously announces: "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
"What grounds the truths in the declaration's legendary second sentence, let alone their self-evidence?" asks Omri Boehm, a philosopher at

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