Sometimes called the “literature of ideas,” science fiction is a natural medium for normative political philosophy. Science fiction’s focus on technology, space and time travel, non-human lifeforms, and parallel universes cannot help but invoke the ...

America is a nation making itself up as it goes along--a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly ...

Are the politics of the United States to blame for its current unsteady footing in the 21st century? This book aims to answer this uncomfortable but relevant question by examining the strengths and weaknesses of ...

This volume collects the essential thinkers on government and politics. Rather than merely presenting them chronologically, it organizes them around the perennial challenges of political life, including the purpose of government, the tension between freedom ...

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was the first philosopher to take seriously the idea that people are essentially equal. Not only do we want the same things, but also we think that we have an equal claim ...

Few artists have earned as much of a reputation for championing the working class as Bruce Springsteen. His songs are replete with references to thankless jobs and grudging bosses that just plain screw up an ...

The advent of artificial intelligence and concerns over academic integrity have put instructors from every discipline on notice regarding the kinds of coursework we are assigning. But this is also a moment to deliver content ...

Book review by Steven Michels. Mounk, Y. (2019). The people vs.democracy: Why our freedom is in danger and how to save it. Harvard University Press.

This article discusses Plato's view of democracy based on the book The Laws. The most obvious example of the more positive treatment of democracy in The Laws is that Plato presents monarchy and democracy as ...

The recent spate of college closings, mergers and acquisitions is only likely to increase as a result of the financial pressures related to the pandemic. It's a time fraught with anxieties and uncertainty. Here are ...

Allan J. Lichtman, distinguished professor of history at American University, has made a substantial, and hopefully welcome, contribution to the discussion of how American democracy can be bolstered in the wake of the Donald Trump ...

Book Review of "Men at War: What Fiction Tells Us about Conflict, from The Iliad to Catch-22" by Christopher Coker