Prologue On and off, I have spent decades studying Greek history. I am not so sure, however, that I fully understand what made the ancient Greeks so ...

Biden said, "Democracy is at stake, folks. Our democracy is under attack. And we gotta fight for it. I taught at the University of Pennsylvania for four years. And I used to teach political theory ...

Normative Theory: A framework within political theory that outlines how societies and political institutions ought to be organised, based on ethical and moral principles.

A political theory that elevates a Founding-era conception of the Constitution will always be in conflict with the political theory of living constitutionalism and administrative power.

Before all the talk about “public intellectuals,” Michael Walzer was one. For 50 years, he has gone back and forth between positions at Princeton and Harvard Universities and then at the ...

Why Political Theory Needs History: Dismantling the Liberal-Republican Distinction to Understand the Promise of American Democracy Although political scientists continue to distinguish a so-called ...

November 7, 2017 Lectures in History Political Theory and the Early Republic ...

Crash Course: Political Theory is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku ...

Political Ignorance Political Ignorance is an Even Worse Problem than I Thought I've long warned about the dangers of voter ignorance. But the Trump era and the current election reveal that, on ...

Being thus outside the political mainstream makes a robust political theory of mind a necessity to make sense of anything in our national politics at all. Unfortunately, that's not a situation ...