Understanding Society

In a recent post I considered Hannah Arendt's reflections on what she termed the totalitarianism of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. ...

Anyone interested in the development of modern political philosophy is unavoidably interested in Thomas Hobbes, author of Leviathan and one...

Hannah Arendt's most important contribution to political theory was her book on totalitarianism,  The Origins of Totalitarianism . Her m...

Recent posts have focused attention on the topic of the evils that occurred in the twentieth century: genocide, deliberate mass starvation, ...

An earlier post suggested that we cannot really address the issue of the stability of liberal democracy without considering issues of econom...

An earlier post raised the question of popular support for -- satisfaction with -- the state of democracy in many democratic nations. It was...

Recent posts have considered the question of whether liberal democracy is stable, or whether the assaults on liberal democracy by the populi...

Why should we revere our constitution as the fundamental set of political and moral principles underlying our democracy? Is it simply becaus...

Donald Trump's attack on the electoral system has gone far beyond normal and evidence-based legal challenges to details about the electi...