Aristotle’s political thought might provide a more solid foundation for liberal politics than the view of human nature offered by early modern theorists. Professor Nichols studies Greek political ...

Aristotle believed that the biggest and most widespread source of political tension is the struggle between the haves and the have-nots. More than 2,000 years later, he’s got a point.

The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes by Stefan Eich, Princeton University Press, $35/£28, 344 pages.

Where the movement goes from here is up for grabs. It may well die out – Aristotle warned that a politics of the common good becomes impossible if societies become too unequal. For the moment, I ...