Political correctness aims for some very nice results, but its means have a habit of upsetting a lot of people. …
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Thoreau and Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau not only wrote Walden; he is also responsible for a small pamphlet titled Civil Disobedience, which recommends …
Why Socrates Hated Democracy
We’re used to thinking hugely well of democracy. But interestingly, one of the wisest people who ever lived, Socrates, had …
The Fragility of Good Government
We are not living in an age of unusual folly. We’re simply rediscovering how rare good government has ever been …
POLITICAL THEORY – Friedrich Hayek
The leading theorist of modern right-wing political movements was an Austrian economist called Friedrich Hayek. For more on this and …
POLITICAL THEORY – John Rawls
How do you get a society that provides basic decent services to all citizens? Political theorist John Rawls had a …
POLITICAL THEORY – Karl Marx
Karl Marx remains deeply important today not as the man who told us what to replace capitalism with, but as …