An excellent Twitter thread by the philosopher Liam Kofi Bright from a few days ago pushed me to belatedly begin to learn more about the work of Charles W. Mills. Mills is a political philosopher well-known for his work critiquing contractarian theory for its blindness to race.[1] I was generally familiar with this work, but I have frankly never found much of interest in contractarian theory and so have never felt impelled to read Mills—or his sometime co-author Carole Pateman—closely or in depth.[2] Bright’s explanation of how Mills’s work can be divided into three interlocking projects, however, makes an excellent Read more