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Convince an enemy, convince him that he’s wrong Is to win a bloodless battle where victory is long A simple act of faith, in reason over...

Carved into the stone of the ancient temple of Apollo at Delphi was the injunction to ‘know thyself’. Without such knowledge we are...

Introduction My philosophy aims at an ordering of rank: not at an individualistic morality. The ideas of the herd should rule in the...

Professor Judith Butler is a world-renowned philosopher and theorist whose writing has made them a household name. Their work has shaped...

Professor Jan-Werner Müller is the Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Politics at Princeton University....

‘It is authority and not truth that makes the law’[1] German philosopher Hannah Arendt says in her book On Violence : ‘The authority does...

Applause in the executive boardroom. Hands pound backs, mouths twist into smiles. A round man with a stain of indecipherable grease on...

Amitav Acharya is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Distinguished Professor at the School of International...

There exists a fine line that sociologists—and all social scientists—must tread as they try to knit together empirical, objective[1]...

Then from out the cave the mighty Polyphemus answered them: ‘My friends, it is Noman that is slaying me by guile and not by force’. And...

Artists have drawn ideas, thoughts, and concepts from the works of others for centuries. However, copyright infringement issues...

A front-runner in the fight for equality and justice, Professor Judith Butler is one of the most influential philosophers of the past...

‘I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ is a phrase that has been raptured up into the popular English lexicon, cited,...

Introduction The work of many 17th-18th century thinkers on politics and society continues to shape modern discourse, with notable...

Had any of the players who competed for the inaugural tennis grand slam of 2022 in Melbourne been complete (i.e. sovereign,...

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values are prestigious gatherings of globally renowned scholars across the humanities and the sciences....

In the 1967 gangster road movie Bonnie and Clyde , the often-horrific events of the real-life story are cut with ingenuous humour and...

Introduction The human–animal relationship, as a concept of study, spans multiple disciplines and indeed has been an area of interest...

It would be pointless to list all the issues driving so much of society to take on a pessimistic view of our near future and view us as...

I became an atheist at the age of eight. After one of my Hebrew-school teachers devoted a 90-minute class to recounting her experiences...

Sylvana Tomaselli is a historian and lecturer in political philosophy at the University of Cambridge, where she is a fellow of St John’s...

The recent upsurge of interest in the history of the British Empire has produced a wealth of literature that often presents empire and...

Funding for the arts is quite frequently commended by political philosophers and political pundits—whom I shall call ‘edificatory...

When writing critically about the Russian avant-garde, one finds oneself inexorably drawn towards cosmism, as inexorably as the Earth...