Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason, by Pierre Manent (University of Notre Dame Press, 149 pp., $29) Russell Kirk once described natural law as “an ethical knowledge, ...

Are you an aspiring lawyer? Or, are you interested in a career as a government official? Perhaps you’re simply interested in learning about Western politics and how our political landscape became what ...

JMC's Elliott Drago sat down with JMC network member Jason Canon to discuss his work on empathy, democracy, and early modern political thought ...

Two University of California, Santa Cruz Humanities professors have been named co-editors of an influential scholarly journal that addresses the most pressing issues of the 21st century, from the ...

Retired Professor Robert K. Faulkner, a longtime faculty member in the Boston College Political Science Department who was a universally respected scholar of modern political philosophy and American ...

The small size of the program—approximately five to six students are admitted to the doctoral program each year—allows for personal attention and close contacts with the faculty. Informal colloquia ...

This has been a sad week for those of us who read, study and care about political philosophy. That’s because Charles W. Mills, a U.K.-born and Jamaica-raised philosopher whose life’s work was the ...

Political philosophy sounds abstract and nerdy, but it is inescapable. If you have any political opinions, then you have a philosophy and are probably acting in accordance with it. Administrative ...

He argued that white supremacy was a feature of the Western political tradition, and that racism represented a political system as intentional as liberal democracy. By Clay Risen Charles W. Mills, a ...

When it comes to 17th-century English philosophers, Thomas Hobbes holds a lot of appeal. He wrote with vivid prose, rich argument and a stinging wit. He was also ahead of his time. Nearly 400 years ...

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 ...