In your book, Enlightenment Now, you have argued against the commonly accepted views on inequality – most importantly against the Gini coefficient, arguing that it is not the same as poverty or unfairness and that […]
– Michele Moody-Adams Looking more closely at the invective from the American examples above, there isn’t anything especially artful or inventive about disrupting a Presidential speech by yelling out “you lie” because one disagrees with […]
– Bruce E Cain While lottery government was an important feature in some of the earliest democracies, it has until recently played a relatively minor role in modern democratic design. Sortition in the Athenian state […]
– Manuel DeLanda The various relations between the military and technology are best discussed at a level intermediate between the micro-level of the individual and the macro-level of society as a whole. The mesolevel, as […]
– Syed Sayeed In all ages, everywhere, there have been brave souls with exemplary courage of conviction who stood for truth and were willing to make great sacrifices for that truth. The truths they were […]
– Bart Schultz The original 1892 version of the American Pledge of Allegiance, which appeared in the family magazine The Youth’s Companion, read simply “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which […]
On a US campus, an incident took place recently: a group of young Latino workers were restoring the façade of a house on a plateau that overlooked a nearby swimming pool where a group of […]
On March 14, 2018, Swagat Baruah, Managing Editor of JPTP interviewed Prof. Noam Chomsky. The whole conversation is produced below: Read the whole interview here. Don’t you see a deeper centralisation of the power of […]
–Joanna Burch-Brown Social philosophers working in the black freedom traditions, such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Stuart Hall and Sally Haslanger, have long held that if we are to bring about a more just society, we […]
–Ingvar Johansson Politics, many political commentators and political scientists are claiming has entered a new era: post-truth politics. Where such politics reigns, the question whether in political discussions, seemingly factual assertions, explanations and narratives are […]