In order to understand it thoroughly, defining political theatre is essential but also challenging since it does not only include one kind of intellectual product – it is a topic that contains ...

This essay appears in our Fall 2025 issue under the headline “What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Political Violence.” Georges Sorel, writing in 1908, gave a very different account of violence ...

In the last few decades there’s been a lot of writing by social scientists about many kinds of intelligence besides the one we all know about from IQ tests. In the 1990s, the psychologist Howard ...

Charlie Kirk’s killing comes amid an alarming rise in political violence across the U.S., targeting both Democrats and Republicans. Rachel Kleinfeld, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for ...

Are you an aspiring lawyer? Or, are you interested in a career as a government official? Perhaps you’re simply interested in learning about Western politics and how our political landscape became what ...

President Donald Trump has filed a $5 billion lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, alleging the bank shut down his accounts for political reasons in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, ...

Orwell’s voice reached audiences through numerous BBC and other broadcasts, but no recordings remain today. Source: BBC/Unknown author, via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain) George Orwell once ...

A conversation about MAGA’s militancy and the strategies to protect Democracy. Scot Nakagawa, Maria J. Stephan, Sala Cyril(Supplied, Katy Tartakoff, Naomi Ishisaka) Democracy requires that we make ...