Upon awarding him the National Humanities Medal in 1999, President Bill Clinton praised John Rawls as “perhaps the greatest political philosopher of the twentieth century” who “helped a whole ...

With the start of each semester, Tufts welcomes new faculty who bring their unique and nuanced perspectives into the fabric of Tufts’ academic community. Shterna Friedman joined the Department of ...

The small size of the program—approximately five to six students are admitted to the doctoral program each year—allows for personal attention and close contacts with the faculty. Informal colloquia ...

JMC's Elliott Drago sat down with JMC network member Jason Canon to discuss his work on empathy, democracy, and early modern political thought ...

Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason, by Pierre Manent (University of Notre Dame Press, 149 pp., $29) Russell Kirk once described natural law as “an ethical knowledge, ...

The Political Theory MA is distinctive in its coverage of contemporary political theory, its exploration of diverse ethical traditions, its use of critical methods for applying ethical knowledge to ...

THIS short manual gives an excellent and clear account of the various socialistic and communistic theories which have recently become important owing to the success of the revolutionary movement in ...

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Political Theory. This course is not available as an outside option to students on other programmes. This course provides an introduction to the philosophical ...