Gandhi offered a nonviolent alternative to the failures of the modern liberal and realist orders, emphasizing Satyagraha and self-limitation over militarized, masculinist approaches to conflict ...

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 ...

The insurrection was eventually put down by a private army hired by Massachusetts Governor James Bowdoin, after members of the state militia refused his call to do so. But what might have happened, ...

But these days, it’s Reform and Green party members who are most ideologically at odds with the voting public – something their leaders will need to be mindful of as they prepare for the next election ...

Using his thought experiment of adopting a “veil of ignorance”, John Rawls advocated for basic liberties and redistribution to benefit the least well-off. Robert Nozick opposed this view, arguing for ...

In nearly all the countries we surveyed, supporters of the governing party view their economy more positively than nonsupporters.