As Jean-Jacques Rousseau argued, democracy is at its most vulnerable when inequality in a society has become entrenched and ...

As Jean-Jacques Rousseau argued, democracy is at its most vulnerable when inequality in a society has become entrenched and grown too glaring. Deep social and economic disparities create the ...

Drawing inspiration from philosophers Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the commissioner emphasised the ...

Le Café de Surate’ published in 1790 is an important glimpse into the history of the mercantile and port city as a ...

Across history, intellectual and philosophical ideas have shaped social, political and economic movements, setting the foundation for systems ...

Such romanticism pre-dates Jean-Jacques Rousseau, but his work inspired deep objections to urbanization and industrialization in the early 19th century, objections that persist and retain their ...

How much civics have you had?” I was asked by a skeptical adult, shortly after high school. I hesitated to answer. Civics? I ...

Let the light in. Five years after the Metropolitan Museum of Art set off on a major renovation of its galleries for European painting, the superprime real estate at the top of its grand staircase is ...

Sales of two books Han recently mentioned she was reading — Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky and Atlas de Botanique Élémentaire by Jean-Jacques Rousseau — had also surged ...

He speaks quietly, gesticulating with his extraordinarily long and elegant fingers. We talk about his admiration for the United States — “Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s social contract made alive” — and his ...

5. Worrying about inequality builds resentment Jean-Jacques Rousseau said economic inequality inflames the “citizens’ hatred of one another”, while John Stuart Mill said it creates ...