David Hume was not only a lover of political speculation, who dealt with politics in his most important works, but also an expert in military […]
Category: Politics
How far Should Tolerance go?
What are the limits of tolerance in constitutional or liberal democracies today? This is a crucial question, for if there were no limits to tolerance, […]
Women on the Verge of Jihad. The Hidden Pathways Towards Radicalization
Surprisingly, jihadi groups like ISIS do not only attract female supporters coming from Muslim communities, but also Western women who grew up in non- Muslim […]
Montesquieu: An Introduction. A Universal Mind for a Universal Science of Political-legal Systems
What can Montesquieu still teach us today? Montesquieu was the first political writer who first formulated the principles of separation of powers and the independence […]
Philosophy and Hope. Bloch and Löwith Interpreters of Marx
One of the greatest unsolved issues that Karl Marx bequeathed to his interpreters concerns the legitimacy of practical and theoretical hope, both in the frame […]
The West Removed. Economics, Democracy, Freedom: A Counter-History of our Civilization
The seven chapters of this book cover a variety of concepts (liberalism, freedom, Marxism) and classic thinkers (Mill, Marx, Hayek, Popper) in order to disclose […]
Europe and capitalism. Regaining the future
The current European Union is too often presented as the Europe of peoples and freedom. This essay overturns this common way of understanding our political […]
After the Yemeni spring. A survey on the transition
Yemen has been a key-actor in the War on Terror throughout the 2000s. It is a complex country, too often trivialized by statistics focusing on its inconvenient […]