Was slavery a ‘necessary evil’? Here’s what John Stuart Mill would say.
Mill’s lesson: The winners in unjust systems always want the oppressed to assume their fate was inevitable.
The military is making changes in response to Black Lives Matter protests. That’s good for fighting wars.
New research looks at ethnic and racial inequalities in armies across 250 different wars
Does the pandemic spell the end of populism? Most likely not — here’s why.
Political change results from the tug of war between two forces: dominance and innovation
What’s Vladimir Putin’s end game? Other post-Soviet autocrats give a few clues.
Here’s why he will try to stay in power.
What would Hobbes say about the pandemic? Governments should protect lives — and help the poor.
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.