Understanding Society

If you are concerned about the fate of our democratic institutions, the rise of xenophobia and hate, and the rule of law, please consider vi...

Karl Marx Imagined The social world is more complex and heterogeneous than most parts of the natural world, with diverse causal processes, d...

  Rawls believes that a just society must be a pluralistic society, and that means that it must be neutral across (reasonable) comprehensive...

In his speech to the top officers of the United States military Donald Trump has crossed the line from reckless right-wing authoritarian pol...

A prior   post   asked whether liberal political philosophy can be “anti-racist”. Charles Mills addresses a related question in much more ra...

John Rawls and Philip Pettit agree about the idea that a liberal democracy depends on the idea that   all  citizens have equal liberties, ri...

  We might say that a political philosophy is a formulation of the normative ideals that the philosopher holds to be primary in implementing...

Many thoughtful people in the US are concerned about the effects that the  2025 federal budget reconciliation law  will have on poor people ...

A current exhibition of the paintings of Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) at the Art Institute in Chicago is quite remarkable. It demonstrate...