Alex Singleton | Journalist and political commentator

“The trouble with ’social justice’ begins with the very meaning of the term. Hayek points out that whole books and treatises have been written about social justice without ever offering a definition of it. It is allowed to float in the air as if everyone will recognize an instance of it when it appears. This vagueness seems indispensable. The minute one begins to define social justice, one runs into embarrassing intellectual difficulties. It becomes, most often, a term of art whose operational meaning is, ‘We need a law against that.”‘ In other words, it becomes an instrument of ideological intimidation, for the purpose of gaining the power of legal coercion.” - Michael Novak, Defining Social Justice