This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Scholars studying classic political texts face an important decision: Should these texts be read as artifacts of history or as sources for ...

New Literary History, Vol. 48, No. 3 (SUMMER 2017), pp. 483-502 (20 pages) Baron de Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, trans. Thomas Nugent (New York: Hafner, 1949), lxvii, lxix (hereafter cited as ...

Our politics is intimately linked to the environmental conditions - and crises - of our time. The challenges of sustainability and the discovery of ecological limits to growth are transforming how we ...

Should our government ignore identities or focus on them? Let’s explore identity politics. Should our government ignore our identities or focus on them? In this episode of Crash Course Political ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’m sometimes asked by students in my political theory classes, “Professor, you’ve taught us about all sorts of different political theories, but what are your political beliefs?” To which my response ...