Duke historian Nancy MacLean made waves in 2017 with her book Democracy in Chains, a fantastical conspiracy drama that recasts…
Humankind’s propensity to act selfishly is taken to be an important problem in political theory: an impediment, perhaps, to the…
Among the many questions that marked the 2016 election and its result, perhaps the one that dominated was how the…
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It may be hard for many Americans to hear, but politics has most likely blinded them, obscuring their view of…
Summarizing The Commonwealth of Oceana, James Harrington’s controversial mid-17th century work of political theory, Daniel Webster wrote that “power naturally…
The ongoing presidential race has occasioned an impassioned, if not exactly enlightened, consideration of the causes of the 2008 financial…