Individual voters have little reason to become informed. Politicians have strong incentives to pander rather than persuade.

In 1932, in one of the more infamous exchanges between what eventually came to be known as the “analytic” and “continental” ...

Explore the pros and cons of going global versus keeping it local in today’s politics. What do we owe other people? Are we just as obligated to help someone on the other side of the world as someone ...

Kirk encouraged political participation, civil discourse and free speech. He shared his opinions and urged others to do the ...

Originalism’s politico-theoretical premises are hostile to the premises undergirding the administrative state and living constitutionalism. The concentration of lawmaking power into the hands of the ...

See how artists have shaped politics and politicians have failed to stop them. Art and politics may seem like mortal enemies, but they’re more like best frenemies forever. In this episode of Crash ...

In my last column, I promised to revisit the partly answered question of why civil discourse has become so rare in American politics, and why so much animus exists between left and right. The attitude ...

How can remembering we are Earthborn reshape democracy in an age of crisis? Ali Aslam is associate professor of politics at Mount Holyoke College. He is the author of Ordinary Democracy: Sovereignty ...

Plato and Aristotle in discussion, 1437, by Luca della Robbia (ca 1400-1482), marble tile, depicts two of the greatest philosophers, who wrote two of the all-time best philosophy books. Philosophy ...