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Rowan Williams was the Church of England’s leading bishop for 10 years until 2012

Gramsci was writing in the face of the collapse of revolutionary hopes. But he rejected the dominant Marxist thinking of his day.

Habermas was unshakeable in his conviction that people have minds of their own and are free to hope for a better future.

Psychological and social perspectives on economy that were developed by 19th-century philosophers can help us re-imagine economics with a human face.

Norway Should Buy OpenAI The Long Arc of History Bends Towards Social Democracy AI capabilities are advancing at a faster rate than our institutional response. Soon, a transformative technology will crash into the capitalist political economy, presenting risks to humanity’s survival, autonomy, and democratic order. Especially concerning is the possibility that vast amounts of power and wealth are…

Montesquieu: •Key Work: The Spirit of the Laws (1748) •Focus: Political systems, separation of powers, comparative government •Famous Concept: Separation of Powers (executive, legislative, judicial) •Approach: Systematic, analytical, institutional •Ideal Government: Constitutional monarchy with checks and balances •View on England: Admired British system as model •Style: Scholarly, systematic, ph…

This book advances the thesis that a just society must be understood as an organism—a living, differentiated, interdependent whole—and not as a system governed by any -ism. It argues that every -ism is a mythological architecture: a story that claims to be destiny, a module that has forgotten it is a module, a bluff that performs certainty where uncertainty actually lives. The book traces the lay…

Op-ed by Hossein Dabbagh, an Associate professor of philosophy at Northeastern University London. The post Iran is not anti-imperialist. It is a state calculating survival appeared first on Northeastern Global News .

The technology transfer office (TTO) emerged as an ad hoc institutional response to a specific American legal and economic moment: Niels Reimers's founding of Stanford University's Office of Technology Licensing in 1970, and the subsequent enactment of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980, which granted universities title to inventions arising from federally funded research. Over five decades, this single n…

Published on July 22, 2026 11:38 PM GMT Glen Weyl and friends have recently called attention to a problem they call reverse alignment . While they think the AI alignment issue is important, they argue that most people in the space neglect thinking about the institutions that would interface with advanced AI capabilities (in favor of thinking about the AI capabilities side of things). In brief, so…

Thomas E. Hill, Jr., professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has died. Professor Hill was well-known for his work in ethics, the history of ethics, and political philosophy, and especially for his scholarship on Kantian moral and political philosophy. He is the author of Beyond Duty: Kantian Ideals of Respect, Beneficence, and Appreciation (2022), Virtue…

Meet G.A. Cohen's harshest critic. Part 2 of 3 of a series on capitalism, socialism, and community.

The Centre for Ethics, Law and Public Affairs (CELPA) at the University of Warwick has announced a mentorship program that “aims to support academics from groups underrepresented in moral, legal, and political philosophy, particularly researchers without established connections to elite institutions and scholars from the Global South.” Led by Warwick’s Victor Tadros and Sameer Bajaj, the program …

“Philosophers were the first targets of Orbán’s ‘culture war.’” That’s László Szücs (Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg), talking to Courthouse News Service about “the so-called ‘philosophers’ affair’: Orbán’s and his media’s first major anti-intellectual campaign.” It is “the saga of how the government slowly throttled an archive and research center inside the old apartment of György Lukács, a…