Timely and equitable justice forms a peaceful society. Delays in justice must be addressed to discourage the rise in crime.

This year’s Busan Biennale, inspired by David Graeber’s notion of ‘pirate enlightenment’, offers a glimpse into a world where progress can only be found outside the West.

Thanks very much to Eugene for inviting me to blog about my recently published book, "Rousseau's Rejuvenation of Political Philosophy: A New Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)." No modern ...

Few philosophers in the Western Canon fell under as intense persecution during their lifetimes as Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). After the publication and subsequent political and ecumenical ...

GENEVA, June 28 (UNHCR) - "Man is born free but everywhere is in chains." This quote made the Geneva-born political philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, world famous. But today, as we commemorate the ...

It is therefore worth coming to grips with his thought and its legacy. But like any major thinker, there are risks in summaries – some of which give us clues about Rousseau himself. Although he is ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ideas, whether acknowledged or not, have permeated Western counter-hegemonic, progressive thought — modern and postmodern — for the last 250 years. Change the conversation, ...

Bob: Let me cut to the chase, JJ. You are too smart to be a conservative. That is obvious. You will only grow frustrated forcing less than 1% of your brain to operate when talking with fellow ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a contestataire, a non-conformist, a rebel, a pre-revolutionary, whose remains were carried to the Pantheon in the aftermath of the French Revolution, to be buried a hero.