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Editorial

A Serious Matter

by Rick Lewis

“Politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”
Charles de Gaulle

Our special theme in this issue is political philosophy and in planning it our intention was to take a close look at a few of the newer concepts and less familiar thinkers you might encounter. The terminology, the conflicts and the arguments in politics all change over time, and if you look away for too long it can all come to seem unfamiliar. Political philosophy at its best can bring clarity, can map out the territory and blow away some of the fog.

For our opening article we picked an intriguing short piece by Dan Corjescu asking why the world is generally a much more peaceful place now than it was in the past.

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