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Jason Morgan

Jason Morgan, PhD (Japanese history) studies legal and political history and philosophy. He recently completed an MA in Philosophy (Christian Wisdom) at Holy Apostles College and Seminary. He has translated work by Hata Ikuhiko, Mizoguchi Yuzo, and Tanizaki Jun’ichiro, among many other Japanese scholars and authors.

Morgan has published several books and numerous essays in Japanese. His English-language works have appeared in JAPAN Forward, Japan Review, the Journal of American-East Asian Relations, Scientia et Fides, Philosophy Now, The Remnant, Dao, New Oxford Review, Studia Gilsoniana, Human Life Review, Modern Age, Society, the University Bookman, Mankind Quarterly, the International Journal of Asian Studies, the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, the Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies, and others.

Morgan’s most recent books are Law and Society in Imperial Japan (Cambria, 2020) and Information Regimes in Cold War East Asia (Routledge, 2020). His website can be found here.

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For True Social Justice, Do Not Assume the Original Position

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When “lost world” or original position doctrines inform our search for justice, we are much less likely to work to improve social conditions in the real world. “Second-best justice,” on the other hand, seeks the reasonable solution to a dispute, one acceptable to all parties that repairs communal harmony to the greatest extent possible. Perfection does not enter the equation, either as an original state or as a goal.
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National Reparations Can’t Create Justice, But Local Ones Might

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Reparations for racial injustice are necessary, but they will be effective only on a local level, not a national one.
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Defending Against Government Injustice

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The temptation to shoot a wayward cop for victimizing an unarmed civilian may be very real. But it is precisely by refusing this temptation and hewing to the better angels of our nature—winged not with retaliatory violence but with patience and love—that society will change.

We Cannot Be Both Christians and Marxists

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Terry Eagleton attempts to offer us a gentle revolution, a soft “transition” from Catholicism to Marxism. This is as theoretically and theologically impossible as it is historically unprecedented. Any “radical sacrifice” on anything other than God’s terms will lead to mass bloodshed and human suffering, as it has whenever and wherever such a project has been tried before.
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The Real Lesson of the Dust Bowl: Communities as Bulwarks Against Atomism and Statism

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The alternative to the ideology of radical self-sufficiency is not reliance on the state, but the kind of community-based brotherly love and mutual aid that could be found even during midwestern American farmers’ darkest days. In the end, neither individuals nor governments, but communities, are the real vehicles for peace, harmony, and human flourishing.
Public Discourse

Liberalism Can’t Understand Sex

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Because it reduces the human person into a mere vehicle for abstract rights, liberalism has no language to express the transcendence and sacrifice of human sexuality.
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