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Politics and the Apolitical Life: Why Politics Matter in Everything

In this piece, I will be taking seriously the wisdom of Pericles and Aristotle; one was one of the founding statesmen of Athenian democracy, and the other one of Greece’s greatest...

The Physics of Politics

As conservatives seek to counter the hard-left turn taken by the Democratic Party, it will not be enough to simply point out the grim failures of Marxist-inspired philosophies ever...

Politics, ethics, war

There is a view that morality has no place in politics. Politics is about who can do what to whom, and therefore it is about power and power struggles.

On the Duty To Disobey Unjust Commands

Philosopher Omri Boehm argues persuasively that universal human dignity is anathema to identitarian politics.

Plutocracy Revisited

As a young political science and philosophy major I learned about types of governments. Among these is the plutocracy—rule by the wealthy. I recall thinking, in my young anarchist...

Filosoof Alicja Gescinska: ‘Als je je afkeert van de politiek, dan keer je je af van je eigen vrijheid, en van je medeme...