Trumpism and the Department of Government Efficiency are returning American society to a primitive state of nature.

The jaunty image of the Victorian child chimney sweep is indelibly romantic, evoking the picturesque London glamorized in ...

Calvin and Hobbes were named after philosophers, and Watterson criticized both Thomas Hobbes' and John Calvin's philosophy.

But Last One Laughing doubles our laughs. We watch the actual joke, we get it, we laugh. And then we see comedians desperately trying not to laugh – but we know that they get the joke too! And so we ...

Eric Nelson is chiefly interested in the history of republican political theory, the reception of classical political thought in early-modern Europe, theories of property, and the philosophy of Thomas ...

He is also interested in the relationship between storytelling and education. His publications include examinations of the ideas of Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, and Alexis de Tocqueville. "that which ...