A walkthrough review of Michael Sandel's Justice, by Vivian Gornick. Gornick seems to suggest, at the end, that political theories of justice seem to skip something crucial between theory and practice: reality. She seems, finally, to side with Rawls (though hardly wholly), but Slavoj Zizek has pointed out - with psychoanalytic charm - that individuals seem to require those who they feel they are 'above', or against whom they can compare themselves. The idea of universal equality, assuming this to be some sort of apriori (psycho)analytic truth, becomes some sort of terrible punishment. Article here, in the Boston Review:http://bostonreview.net/BR35.2/gornick.php
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