Pre-eminent historian J.G.A. Pocock, whose erudite presence has towered for generations at the intersection of intellectual history, history of political thought, and history of law, died in Baltimore ...

It’s time to redefine what populism means in the context of a liberal democracy—that’s the view of Professor Seth Jaffe ’00, who teaches the history of political thought at LUISS Guido Carli ...

History of Political Thought, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Summer 2019), pp. 175-195 (21 pages) Scholarship on al-Farabi interprets his theoretical analysis of politics apart from its historical context, which ...

JAKARTA—On Friday and Saturday, Aug. 15 and 16, just before proud Indonesians celebrated the 80 th anniversary of their independence on Sunday, Aug. 17, I conducted in the country’s capital city four ...

As is often noted, piety is not among the list of moral and intellectual virtues mentioned by Aristotle in the Ethics. I argue that this is neither an oversight on Aristotle’s part nor a subtle way ...

One of the works I cited in my column this week is the volume “African American Political Thought: A Collected History,” edited by the political theorists Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner. The book is ...

University of Western Australia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Nikhil Krishnan’s intriguing and charming history, A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford ...