At a recent event at Brown University, discussions about perceived threats to academic freedom tackled concerns from various ...

There are even crazy-sounding religious -isms like Frisbeetarianism (comedian George Carlin’s pitch that someone’s soul gets ...

The Constitution is lauded as the cornerstone of our democracy. But what if it’s the reason we don’t actually have one?

Upon the adoption of the Constitution of the United States in 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman what kind of ...

The upshot was frightening. Paradoxically individual freedom could end up being more restricted under mass democracy than under the despotic sovereigns of yore. Mill famously refers to this as ...

Over 2,400 years ago, during the time of the Peloponnesian War that engulfed Greece, the leader of the Greeks, Pericles, delivered his famous ‘Funeral Oration’ to commemorate the soldiers who died in ...

Social media users blasted President Biden after he claimed that he taught "political theory" at the University of Pennsylvania. Critics accused the president of making up a "pretend life" with his ...

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 ...

What even is “liberty”? These are the fundamentals of Classical and Modern Liberalism. Liberty and the rights of individuals form the backbone of American politics. But what is “liberty” anyway? In ...

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 ...