Understanding Society

Politicians, generals, corporate directors, and ordinary men and women had a direct relationship to the evils of the twentieth century. Indi...

Ukraine has demonstrated a truly singular level of competence and commitment in its armed resistance to Russia's war since February 24. ...

The sickening tragedy of Buffalo yesterday -- the racist attack on a group of African-American shoppers and workers by an 18-year-old white ...

[This entry provides Ukrainian and Russian translations of a recent post  on totalitarian evil offered as a gesture of support for potential...

It is evident that human beings create evil; but human beings are often driven and dominated by totalitarian ideologies that make great evil...

One of Leo Tolstoy's characteristic beliefs about history in War and Peace is the idiocy of the notion of "great men" who mak...

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...