UB faculty member Richard A. Cohen has been honored with a new scholarly volume dedicated to his lifelong work on the ...

The intersections of friendship, love, beauty, and war remain central issues in the fields of political philosophy and the humanities, profoundly ...

One of the most notorious features of the French ancien régime was the practice of venality of office -- that is, the buying and selling of state offices that often served as a ticket into the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Review of Politics publishes high quality original research that advances scholarly debates in all areas of political theory.

Hannes Kerber is Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy at Boston College, where his research and teaching focus on 17th- and 18th-century political thought. Before joining Boston College in 2024 ...

Supporters need to follow Frederick Douglass' example — and make a case for conceiving of citizenship more broadly.

In my last column, I promised to revisit the partly answered question of why civil discourse has become so rare in American politics, and why so much animus exists between left and right. The attitude ...

As he left the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Ben Franklin is said to have been asked: “Well, Doctor, what have we got — a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin replied: “A republic, if you can keep ...