Richard Dien Winfield is a philosopher. A professor at the University of Georgia, he’s served as president of the Society for Systematic Philosophy, the Hegel Society of America, and the Metaphysical Society of America. He’s published nearly two dozen books, sporting titles such as The Intelligent Mind: On the Genesis and Constitution of Discursive Thought and Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Rethinking in Seventeen Lectures.

And now he’s running for US Senate in Georgia.

Winfield is running on a platform that will be familiar to the American left: Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, stronger worker and union protections, paid family leave and free childcare and elder care. But his campaign places a special emphasis on full employment, a demand that was once of foremost importance on the Left and has in recent decades slipped from view.