The Boldness of Hedgehogs

Reviewers ought not to begin apologetically. It undermines their credibility. Nonetheless, I feel diffidence in the face of Justice for Hedgehogs. It is an astonishing book in ways both expected and unexpected. Moreover, it covers so many topics that the response of many of its readers will be to assign it to a graduate class in moral philosophy, political theory, and jurisprudence and work through it page by page and insight by insight. Indeed, Ronald Dworkin's Preface tells us that this has already happened to it in draft, and that there is a website—www.justiceforhedgehogs.net—where readers can post their doubts and questions, and where he will as far as possible respond to them.