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

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 ...

Arguments for libertarianism typically take two forms. Some libertarians base their creed on natural rights—the idea that each individual has an inborn right to self-ownership, or freedom from ...

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 ...

As he left the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Ben Franklin is said to have been asked: “Well, Doctor, what have we got — a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin replied: “A republic, if you can keep ...

I've long warned about the dangers of voter ignorance. But the Trump era and the current election reveal that, on one crucial point, I was actually too optimistic. I've never been a big believer in ...

I work primarily in intercultural philosophy, focusing largely on social and political issues and sources from East Asia and from the African diaspora. I am also interested in art, aesthetics, bodily ...

JD Vance talks about watching the movie "Boyz n the Hood" (streaming now on Netflix) when he was nine years old and the great influence it has had on his political philosophy during an interview with ...

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 ...