Rousseau’s famous line from The Social Contract reflects on freedom and control, reminding us how society can quietly place limits on human liberty.

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America’s 250th birthday promises to inflame controversies about the character of the country’s founding — and it key ...

As this article goes to press, security officials in Iran are carefully weighing their options on how to dole out violence to ...

History shows that democracies fall when bystanders look away — so why won’t today’s Republicans say, “Have you no sense of ...

Catholic philosopher Carrie Gress challenges the very foundations of feminism, arguing that it has emerged as a rival church ...

Democrats are voicing growing confidence about their long-shot push to reclaim control of the Senate, identifying a narrow ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney, speaking to reporters in Beijing on Friday after making a preliminary deal with China on a range ...

One of the most famous thought experiments in quantum mechanics is called Schrödinger’s cat. Devised by Erwin Schrödinger, it ...

After Mr. Adams died of prostate cancer, Donald Trump, our commander in chief and main mean meme guy, put out a statement ...

University of Chicago professor Robert Pape examines the troubling rise of domestic political violence and says Trump’s ...

Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions ...