Robin teaches political science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is the author of Fear: the History of a Political Idea, [2] which aims to ...

Thirty years ago Wednesday, the world was introduced to Calvin and Hobbes, a daily comic strip about a mischievous young boy named Calvin and his best pal, a tiger named Hobbes. In those decades, ...

When I think of Calvin, that glorious little menace, I first remember the depth of his imagination. His was an external life born explicitly of the internal: distant planets, bed monsters, mutant ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company has launched some pretty outlandish plays in the past year or so, but few can top this one by the U.S. maverick showman Adriano Shaplin. His ostensible subject is the ...

Thomas Hobbes professed the most surprising beliefs about God. God is corporeal he declares. He says this while calmly drawing attention to the first of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of ...

A Critique of Hobbesian Premises through the Lenses of Game Theory and Evolutionary Biology The “state of war” proposed by Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan is examined, with emphasis on the extreme ...

Forty years later, the boy and his stuffed tiger continue to spread joy and wisdom, elevating the cartoon strip to an art form.

A newly discovered document, written by one of Europe's most famous philosophers, Thomas Hobbes, reveals a plan that, if successful, could have turned the tide of one of England's bloodiest wars. In ...

Jean Hampton's Hobbes and the Social Contract has received significant criticism (as well as praise) since publication in 1986. Yet, except for Gauthier, even her critics seem agreed that she ...

In the mid-17th century, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes wrote Leviathan, the masterpiece of English political thought, to justify sovereignty. He insisted that it cannot be divided, from which starting ...