It isn't often that you pick up a book and, within the first few pages, realize this is a book that will necessarily find itself on to the syllabi of almost every course in political philosophy. Even ...

Why did so many American colonials take arms against the ruling British, even when the odds were stacked against them? Dr.

Immigration. Abortion. Guns. Name a third-rail conversation topic and chances are Xiaowen Xu is talking about it – and she knows you are, too. Xu, an assistant professor of psychological sciences at ...

Jennifer Carlson, who teaches sociology at Arizona State University, is a noted expert on US gun culture. By my count, this is her third full-length work on the subject, in addition to a coedited ...

William Brafford has an interesting post on the dangers of hubris (or, as he puts it, undue confidence and ignorance of the limits of one’s knowledge, which are all part of this flaw) and on how to ...

Ordinarily the word “ideology” has a pejorative connotation in American usage. That overtone seems even more pronounced with “ideologue,” which is always derogatory. A partial exception could be made ...

This winter, the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) coalition voiced an intention “to protect society from pseudo-liberal ideology.” The outcome of this process became clear in recent weeks. First, draft ...