Thanks very much to Eugene for inviting me to blog about my recently published book, "Rousseau's Rejuvenation of Political Philosophy: A New Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)." No modern ...

“I love the poorly educated,” Donald Trump said during a victory speech in February, and he has repeatedly taken aim at America’s élites and their “false song of globalism.” Voters in Britain, heeding ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau is known as the "back-to-nature" theorist in education. He is referred to frequently in education texts as the originator of child-centered, natural means of education. Those of ...

Rousseau's Dog: A Tale of Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment by David Edmonds and John Eidinow 405pp, Faber, £15.99 The quarrel between the French writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau and ...

Voltaire, the most famous intellectual of Rousseau's day, rejected traditional religion, but he believed in a divinely ordered universe, and in rational morality as a divinely plotted cause that could ...

"Style" is not a word that springs to mind when talking about San Francisco's Sunset District, block after block of row houses that march toward the ocean in pastel sameness. "Quiet," perhaps, "boring ...