How Amazon is Like a Sweatshop (And What That Reveals About Flourishing and Justice)
Liberal and conservative, right and left, red state and blue state—there are dozens, if not hundreds of ways to divide political and economic lines. But one of the most helpful ways of understanding such differences is recognizing the divide between advocates of proximate justice and absolute justice. Several years ago Steven Garber wrote an essay in which he explained the concept of “proximate justice”: Proximate justice realizes that something is better than nothing. It allows us to make peace withsomejustice,somemercy,...