Thomas Hobbes was old enough to have been John Locke’s grandfather, but thanks to his extreme longevity, the two great Anglo-phone philosophers were alive as contemporaries for nearly five decades. For...
In ancient China, the past was ubiquitous. In the thousands of texts that have survived, between the commemorative inscriptions of the Bronze Age elite, the gnomic sayings of Confucius, and the pronouncements...
Paul M. Collins, Jr. & Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, authors of "The President and the Supreme Court" on Donald Trump's tweets.
Anyone who has been around young children knows that they are inquisitive. They are constantly exploring and trying new things. They ask a lot of questions – indeed some research has shown that by the...
Today discussions about ‘liberalism’s crisis’ abound. Liberal values and institutions are in retreat in countries where they seemed relatively secure, and the prospects for liberal development in...
Acting is an elusive art, because – unlike for example a painting, sculpture, poem or score – an actor’s performance cannot be held in the hand, and is not available to pin down for...
Daniel MacDonald, 'Sídhe Gaoithe/ The Fairy Blast' 1842. Oil on canvas. 89 x 115cm. Image used by permission of the National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin, Ireland.
‘A transducer for separating waves on the basis of the frequencies’ or ‘electric filters’ is an interesting but wide study area on account of their ever-increasing areas of applications. Traditionally,...
Think for a moment about ancient art. What does it conjure up? You may think of sculpture, like the Nike of Samothrace; or busts of Roman emperors; it may be that the treasures from the Egyptian pyramids...
I don’t know who will win the 2020 presidential race, but I do know who will lose: the biggest bully on the block since Billy Franklin beat-up Joey Tarnower in the sixth-grade and ran-off with his lunch...
India introduced a comprehensive multistage value added tax (VAT) system, known as Goods and Services Tax (GST), on 1 July 2017. Indian GST encompasses various indirect taxes from union and state tax...
David McPherson, Creighton University Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, but I would add that it often also begins with dissatisfaction. This is true of my new book Virtue and Meaning:...