When Ken came through on book tour a couple of weeks ago, I gave him a copy of John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice. Later on his book tour, while in Houston, his rental car was parked outside the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Someone smashed a window of the car and took Ken’s laptop bag.
His laptop computer wasn’t in the bag, nor was his iPad. There was, however, a copy of Ken’s new book, Trespassing Across America. The thief took Ken’s book but left the copy of A Theory of Justice.
There must be some meaning in this. Ken is just the man to figure out what it is.
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My book was in my laptop bag and Rawls’ wasn’t, so I don’t think they were making a thoughtful selection. (Wish I had a cleverer “theory of crime/justice.” 🙂 If they would have taken the time to look, they wouldn’t have even taken my bag because there was hardly anything in it. (I’m guessing this sort of heist is a very quick and practiced operation.)I am, though, happy they left your copy of Rawls behind. I’ve been eager to read it for years.
Conor Friedersdorf, a libertarian brat who has been getting off on scolding San Francisco liberals in The Atlantic, recently had a piece on how San Francisco is the capital of “smash and grab” car break-ins:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/san-francisco-crime-policy/479880/
If every car had a copy of “A Theory of Justice” in it, maybe society would improve and the crime rate would drop.
And maybe Conor Friedersdorf would be more at home in Houston.
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