Understanding Society

A rapidly rising percentage of the Chinese population is living in high-rise apartment buildings in hundreds of cities around the country. T...

Let's think about the intellectual influences that have shaped philosophers of science over the past one hundred years or so: Vienna Cir...

Nathan Stoltzfus's Hitler's Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany has a remarkable and startling thesis: though the N...

Vasily Grossman was an important Soviet writer and journalist from the 1930s through his death in 1964. He was a Ukrainian Jew born in 1905,...

What features of a political regime contribute to political loyalty and commitment on the part of its citizens? Can a fascist dictatorship i...

Tim Snyder's Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning is an exceptional and innovative history of the Holocaust, and of the ma...

An earlier post raised the question of whether Socrates had participated, directly or indirectly, in atrocities in war during his celebrated...

photo: execution site at Babi Yar, Kiev, Ukraine, September 1941 It is challenging to form a mental picture of the significance and reality ...