Tag: "political philosophy"

Fahrenheit 9/11

Our film columnist Thomas Wartenberg laughs and cheers this year’s most controversial satire, Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11.
[Issue 47: August/September 2004: Films]

McCarthyism and American Philosophy

John Capps argues that Senator McCarthy’s anti-Communist purges helped positivism to triumph over pragmatism in American universities in the 1950’s.
[Issue 46: May/June 2004: Democracy]

Plato’s Warning

Stuart Greenstreet on why global warming won’t be stopped.
[Issue 46: May/June 2004: Democracy]

Democracy Now

Paul Gregory on How to End Packages and Bundling.
[Issue 46: May/June 2004: Democracy]

Trust the People

by Rick Lewis
[Issue 46: May/June 2004: Editorial]

The Case Against the Democratic State by Gordon Graham & Democracy, Fascism and the New World Order by Ivo Mosley

What’s so hot about democracy? Edward Ingram considers two books which call it into question.
[Issue 46: May/June 2004: Books]

A Ridiculously Brief Overview of Political Philosophy

A five-minute tour of some political thinkers and ideas by Anja Steinbauer.
[Issue 46: May/June 2004: Democracy]

Welfare and Rational Care by Stephen Darwall

Jean Chambers explains how Stephen Darwall’s ideas about care connect to an ambitious theory of rationality and ethics.
[Issue 45: March/April 2004: Books]

Darwin Meets Socrates

Steve Stewart-Williams on the implications of evolutionary theory for ethics.
[Issue 45: March/April 2004: Articles]

Edward Said (1935-2003)

by Anat Biletzki
[Issue 44: January/February 2004: Obituary]

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