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 ...

Sarah Thomas reviews Cass Sunstein’s new book On Liberalism, finding it worthwhile in articulating the meaning of liberalism in our cultural moment. While there is much to value in Sunstein’s ...

See how artists have shaped politics and politicians have failed to stop them. Art and politics may seem like mortal enemies, but they’re more like best frenemies forever. In this episode of Crash ...

Harvard has failed to educate the next generation of philosopher kings. That’s probably a good thing, but great leaders do need more than great hard skills. A quick search on my.harvard reveals that, ...

Crash Course: Political Theory is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung ...

During my years as a Ph.D. student, I found myself for the first time in a familiar routine. For four years, my life settled into a predictable rhythm—weekly meetings with my supervisor, seminars to ...

Quentin Skinner and the contested history of liberty. Over a long career, Skinner has sought to reclaim the idea of republican liberty for the modern age. But his work also raises the question: free ...

new video loaded: A Theory of Media That Explains 15 Years of Politics transcript Martin Gurri discusses how social media and the internet have fundamentally changed the public’s relationship to ...

Nagar’s book argues that the struggles of contemporary Indian politics are fought less in the courts than in the semantic ...

Credibility now rests on coherence across institutions and consistency over time, not on episodic displays of volatility.

Democratic strategists think the party has a messaging problem. Post-election autopsies overflowed with countless cross-tabs of how Democrats “underperformed” with demographic after demographic. There ...