The president describes the concept of affordability as, variously, a Democratic “con job,” as “a new word—nobody ever heard the word,” and, most damningly of all, as “fake.” The reasons for this ...

Aristotle (384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher who, after studying for about 20 years at Plato's Academy, conducted ...

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Americans have a pervasive sense they are being lied to. That has created an unpredictability in politics unseen since Donald Trump said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without losing voters.

Dev Arastu Panchariya posits that political equality, once mistaken for epistemic equality, becomes tyranny in Walzer's sense — a category error killing the very foundations of nobility, distinction ...

The intervening 228 years have shown the chains of the U.S. Constitution to leave room for various kinds of human mischief. But Silicon Valley is pursuing a new use case: imbuing frontier AI models ...

Populist language is wordplay by prejudice. All politicians complicate or obfuscate an argument using a specific label to ...

Why philosophy is less a school subject than a tool for living Imagine you find a wallet on the pavement, stuffed with cash and an ID. No one is watching. Do you return it? Now imagine the owner is ...

I was never taught by Dame Margaret Clark, but almost everyone I know was. She was a legend in the VUW Politics Department and beyond. Jon Johansson writes: It is hard talking about losing someone you ...

Russia is staging an election that matters to almost no one — except President Vladimir V. Putin and his inner circle.

Accountability ceases to be accountability when personal likes, dislikes, rivalries or vendettas determine who is investigated, who is protected and who is ...

In the Republic, Plato’s harsh critique of Homer aims at a strict educational program linking myth, character formation, and societal order.