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What Alito’s flags say about American patriotism

David Lay Williams - May 24, 2024
Tocqueville can still teach us about U.S. democracy.

Biden’s marijuana policy may change attitudes toward immigrants

Melissa R. Michelson and Joe R. Tafoya - December 1, 2022
As states decriminalize cannabis, Republicans soften toward immigrants, our research finds

Three reasons the U.S. hasn’t passed more gun regulations (and one reason this time might be different).

Eulalie Laschever and David Meyer - May 6, 2021
The NRA is in free fall.

Was slavery a ‘necessary evil’? Here’s what John Stuart Mill would say.

David Lay Williams - July 30, 2020
Mill’s lesson: The winners in unjust systems always want the oppressed to assume their fate was inevitable.

What would Hobbes say about the pandemic? Governments should protect lives — and help the poor.

David Lay Williams - May 17, 2020
When a government fails to take seriously its mandate to protect the lives of its citizens, it flirts with inviting violent revolution, chaos and mass casualties, in his view.

What 3 famous philosophers would think about the college admissions scandal

David Lay Williams - March 27, 2019
Plato, Hobbes and Rousseau agree: Concentrated wealth and extreme inequality corrupt the rich and the ordinary alike.

Can the president be indicted? Let’s see what the Greeks had to say about the rule of law.

David Lay Williams - December 26, 2018
[caption id="attachment_81978" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III

What Steven Pinker gets wrong about economic inequality — and the Enlightenment

David Lay Williams - March 11, 2018
Steven Pinker’s new best-selling book “Enlightenment Now” has excited the reading

On Instagram, Louise Linton tried to shame her ‘adorable’ critics. Here’s what Rousseau would say about her Marie Antoinette moment.

David Lay Williams - August 25, 2017
Upon disembarking a government plane in Kentucky this week, Louise

In Trump’s America, who’s protesting and why? Here’s our May report.

Jeremy Pressman, Erica MacDonald, and Erica Chenoweth - June 26, 2017
[caption id="attachment_60339" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Rene Bermudez, second from left, looks
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