It was 2005. Four years had passed since 9/11, and I was in my second year of law school. The War on Terror was in full fury. Iraq was burning. And President George W. Bush had declared war on civil liberties in the Land of the Free.
It was around this time that I began thinking of politics and international affairs from a Buddhist perspective. I’d read Locke, Rousseau, and Mill during my undergraduate degree in Political Science, but what really commanded my attention during those years was Buddhist Philosophy. As much as I had read on the subject, however, I struggled to find much that was original or consistently Buddhist in my readings of political philosophy.
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