Q: Please explain the title "Roman Catholic Political Philosophy," since Catholicism is not a political movement. Father Schall: The title is deliberately paradoxical, even provocative. It is, if you ...

What is the spectre haunting Europe today? It’s simple. The thing that truly dogs us, that really drags at our heels, is ignorance. Ignorance of the fundamental ideas at the heart of politics.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy as a political thinker has long been overshadowed by a romantic view of the Civil Rights Movement he led until his assassination on April 4, 1968, say Harvard scholars ...

Thomas Hobbes’s political philosophy rests on a materialist anthropology that views humans as driven by self-interest, fear of death and the desire for power. In the absence of a common authority, he ...