Originally published on Jan. 13, 2025. Seventeenth-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes has the reputation of being a bit of a curmudgeon. He is most famous for his bleak description of human nature ...

Thomas Hobbes was an accomplished English philosopher, historian, and scientist. Many consider Hobbes to be one of the preeminent thinkers of the last thousand years. Many of his thoughts ...

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.” Cicero, The Laws  During the coming year, the United States, in occasional concert with Israel, must confront expanding terrorist threats.

If policymakers and schools place greater emphasis on American civics and parental information, they will improve public ...

Rachel Reeves is not just facing an economic crisis – she is suffering from a failure of philosophical imagination.

Creator Mark L. Smith's six-episode examination of scruffy, vicious people traversing the Utah Territory in 1857 also stars Taylor Kitsch and Dane DeHaan.

In struggling to understand God’s place in his world, the celebrated journalist and writer keeps his reader at a distance.

However, warranted, the intensity of the debate on the exchange’s impact for Israel’s security going forward has blocked going back to investigate how October 7’s barbarism dismantled the state’s core ...

Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe by John J. Callanan revels in the making of ...

This country would have been in what the great philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, called the State of Nature, where life is short, poor, solitary, brutish and nasty. Yes, Nigeria still faces a Herculean ...

On August 15, 1998, the Real IRA visited a day of wanton carnage on the town of Omagh when a 500-pound bomb explosion took the lives of 29 people.