Younger faculty may think him hopelessly naive or politically incorrect, but Karl Weintraub is still deeply in love with Western Civilization. He has been teaching it for almost half a century at the ...

As a little girl, Roberta Hill survived four years of physical and sexual abuse in the Mohawk School in Canada, one of 139 residential schools designed to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children. An ...

Diogenes of Sinope, a beggar who lived on the streets of Athens in the fourth century B.C.E., has been hailed as the progenitor of performance art, an inspiration for the Occupy movement, and, by the ...

Philosopher Todd Dufresne has written a three-part lecture series for IDEAS, entitled: Climate Change and the Unborn Future: Capitalism, Philosophy, and Pandemic Politics. He argues that the way we ...

Can Freedom and Empire Coexist Western Philosophy Explores Book traces political thought from ancient Greece to modernity, ...

Alexander the Great may be largely seen as one of the world’s greatest-ever military commanders, but he should also be widely remembered for other reasons. What I note and admire most about him is not ...

Sophie Oluwole (1935-2018) was a Nigerian scholar and the first woman to earn a PhD in philosophy in her country. She not only placed Nigeria’s rich Yoruba philosophical tradition on the intellectual ...

"Nothing," it turns out, is really quite something. As in the concept of nothingness. So much so, that in the 1920s, a debate about "nothing" between two philosophers led to a lasting schism in ...

In the realm of human thought, the distinction between ideology and philosophy may appear subtle, but the consequences of this difference can be profound, especially in conflict-ridden regions like ...