Understanding Society

Communism ... or Capitalism? A joke from Poland in the 1970s: "In capitalism it is a question of man's exploitation by m...

The philosophy of technology ought to be an important field within contemporary philosophy, given the centrality of technology in our...

One thing that is clear from the pandemic crisis that is shaking the world is the crucial need we have for models that allow us to est...

Governments at multiple levels are making decisions that affect all of us in ways that really matter. Our health may be protected, or we may...

No one needs to be brought up to date on the devastation already wrought by Covid-19, in the United States, in Europe, and in other part...

Marx offered several theories of the modern world that he observed around him in mid-nineteenth-century Britain that have influenced mu...

In 2007 Chuck Tilly published an intriguing historical and theoretical study of the politics of equality and voice, Democracy . The book...

In a recent post I addressed the question of how social and political circumstances influence the direction of technological change ( li...