If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.... you have a dream.
Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the l...
There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.
If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.
We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people...
[I]n so far as postmodern politics involves a '[t]heoretical retreat from the problem of domination within capitalism,' it is here, in this silent suspension of class analysis, that we are dealing wit...
All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing more than ideology triumphing over common sense.
Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.
The Greeks who rhapsodized about democracy in their rhetoric rarely created democratic institutions. A few cities such as Athens occasionally attempted a system vaguely akin to democracy for a few yea...
The Pages of Gup, now that they had talked through everything so fully, fought hard, remained united, support each other when required to do so, and in general looked like a force with a common purpos...