Understanding Society

Isaiah Berlin's essay The Hedgehog and the Fox is a particularly interesting combination of philosophical analysis and literary critici...

Nietzsche's anti-moralism is a key theme in his philosophy and civilizational criticism. He regarded traditional European morality as ...

Critical realism depends on the key notion that sociologists are justified in construing their statements about social entities as real, obj...

Isaiah Berlin's essay on Machiavelli in Against the Current is penetrating and detailed, valuable both for the specialist and the gener...

What is involved in arriving at scientific knowledge about the social world? The position I have consistently taken emphasizes contingency a...

image: Joseph de Maistre The ideologies of the far right have a particularly strong grip on a segment of democratic society in the current e...

Graph of political systems (click image for full resolution ) It is possible to analyze much of the history of modern political philosophy -...

What is wrong with life in the modern world? The complaint that modern society represents a toxic reduction of the importance of community i...

Senator Mike Braun (R-Indiana) made news in the past few days by questioning whether the Supreme Court was right to rule in 1967 that state ...

When Nazi Germany attacked Poland in 1939 it committed a war crime, codified by the standards established in preparation for the Nuremberg T...