After more than seventy years writing and thinking about democracy, capitalism, and the possibility of emancipatory politics, ...

Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy who helped shape German post-war and post-reunification political discourse.

German philosopher Juergen Habermas, one of the world’s most influential thinkers and a leading voice in shaping postwar German thought, has died at age 96.

Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was ...

We who came of age in the 1960s had our own rebellion, facing the draft and a failing war far away. But we thought in ...

Thou shall not steal.” Since taxation is clearly a “taking” under threat of coercion, we can ask, where does it cross the ...

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As he tells the story, atheism became untenable not primarily through an argument, but because of its inability to explain how his future wife had changed him. “My life was filled with love,” he ...

Doubt may feel uncomfortable, but Nietzsche believed it signals growth. Questioning beliefs is often the first step towards ...

During my years working in Security Operations, we were very careful to vet anything that came our way. We vetted sources, ...

Aristotle once described hope as a waking dream. Friedrich Nietzsche warned that hope can prolong suffering. Centuries later, Vaclav Havel offered a quieter definition. Hope, he said, is not the ...