Understanding Society

A previous post noted the rapid transition in the twentieth century from small physics (Niels Bohr) to large physics (Ernest Lawrence)....

It has been over a month since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The horror, brutality, and relentless cruelty of George Floyd...

When Niels Bohr traveled to Britain in 1911 to study at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, the director was J.J. Thompson and ...

Nicholas Preuth is a philosophy student at the University of Michigan. His primary interests fall in the philosophy of law and the philo...

The history of philosophy is generally written by subject experts who explore and follow a tradition of thought about which figures and ...

In an earlier post I mentioned that agent-based models provide a substantially different way of approaching the problem of pandemic mod...

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