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

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

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

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

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, ...

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

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

Now that the 2024 presidential election results have been announced,  political organizations on campus are shifting gears to ...

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.

Conservatives today often denigrate a concern with economic inequality as a deviant left-wing preoccupation. In fact, from ...

If you understand a political party’s philosophical frame of reference, you can easily predict the laws and policies it will ...

We must reckon with the popular mandate of this anti-intellectual movement or we may well see its most dangerous proposals become reality.