In 1952 the British don Isaiah Berlin delivered a series of radio lectures for the BBC titled “Freedom and Its Betrayal.” Each discussed a particular philosophical “enemy of human liberty.” Delivered ...

There have been several attempts to identify the 'four causes' of history in Ibn Khaldun and Hegel. These attempts have been inspired by the presupposition that both Ibn Khaldun and Hegel are ...

Is George Bush one of the Great Men of History? Sorry about all those capital letters. I’ve been reading Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who has quite a thing for them. This year marks the 200th ...

In his description of patriotism in the Philosophy of Right, Hegel essentially neglects contemporary patriotism's defining characteristic, namely loyalty to or pride in one's country. I argue that the ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831) on history. Hegel, one of the most influential of the modern philosophers, described history as the progress in the ...

The twentieth century has witnessed mounting interest in the meaning of history on the part of scholars and laymen alike. This is not a wholly new development, for man has always been inclined to seek ...

Critic Joseph Fahim’s latest dispatch from the Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale) is headlined: “A car crash Berlinale concludes with a German witch hunt against pro-Palestine filmmakers”, referencing ...

Conservatism has gone from a rigid waltz between libertarians, social conservatives, and foreign policy hawks to a limb-flailing rave. Writers are reaching towards the bookshelf for thinkers that will ...