The new degree program in moral and political economy at Johns Hopkins aims to give students the foundational skills and ...

Political Focus Group members write about what it was like to serve in the group, answering weekly questions and discussing ...

In a lecture entitled “Yale, Then and Now,” distinguished political science professor Steven B. Smith discussed the impact ...

Socrates is the most important exponent of Western philosophy, his ideas forming a continuum from Ancient Greece to today's ...

Famous philosophers like Socrates, Karl Marx, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Ayn Rand have challenged the way we consider the world and ...

Shame on us. In our political discourse, we throw the “isms” around willy-nilly, without really discussing — or understanding — what they actually mean. Liberalism, socialism, Marxism, fascism, ...

Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World,” Donald J. Robertson aims to show how the famed philosopher's work ...

If you understand a political party’s philosophical frame of reference, you can easily predict the laws and policies it will advance — contrary claims in election season notwithstanding.

Philosophers have understood how demagogues come to power in free and fair elections, only to overthrow democracy and ...

The Greek philosopher was the godfather of Stoicism and the original self-help guru. Here’s how you can apply his methods to ...

Elite higher education in the US often seems to be a caricature of itself. As David Gordon shows, Yale University‘s Jason ...