Understanding Society
Daniel Little
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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Making a far-right activist
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Far-right supporters of CasaPound How can we understand some of the factors that lead to the development of far-right beliefs and worldview ...
Sunday, November 9, 2025
The role of political education in social progress
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Stephen Esquith has spent much of his career observing, teaching, and engaging in “conflict societies”, and trying to develop an understandi...
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Affirming democracy
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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...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
A guide to being a sociologist
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Karl Marx Imagined The social world is more complex and heterogeneous than most parts of the natural world, with diverse causal processes, d...
Thursday, October 2, 2025
Confronting race through Rawls's political philosophy
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Rawls believes that a just society must be a pluralistic society, and that means that it must be neutral across (reasonable) comprehensive...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Grounds for impeachment
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In his speech to the top officers of the United States military Donald Trump has crossed the line from reckless right-wing authoritarian pol...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Racial assumptions in western political philosophy
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A prior post asked whether liberal political philosophy can be “anti-racist”. Charles Mills addresses a related question in much more ra...
Friday, September 5, 2025
Can liberal political philosophy support anti-racism?
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John Rawls and Philip Pettit agree about the idea that a liberal democracy depends on the idea that all citizens have equal liberties, ri...
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