Understanding Society

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...

Here is an interesting and important scientific question: where is high-energy physics going? What future discoveries are possible in the fi...

Emile Durkheim is celebrated for many achievements in the founding of the discipline of sociology, but most striking is his endorsement of t...

Vasily Grossman's novel Life and Fate was long delayed in its publication because of Soviet censorship but has come to be recognized as...

The moment has come, after months of insistent, indignant jabber from Vladimir Putin that he has no intention of invading Ukraine: Russian f...