THIS volume contains eight studies of political thought in the Middle Ages which, with two exceptions, appear substantially in the form in which they were delivered as a course of public lectures in ...

Athens and the Roman Republic may have crumbled thousands of years before today’s ascension of elites, but Prof. Barry Strauss ’74, history, argues those ancient civilizations reveal that “building ...

America, wrote George Santayana, is a young country with an old mentality. European political thought has deeply shaped American political values and institutions, but at the same time, America is not ...

Ko Bo Kyi, joint secretary and a founder of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, will present "Please Use Your Liberty to Promote Ours: Burma's Human Rights Crisis" during an Area Focus ...

Keith E. Whittington is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University. He writes about American constitutional law, politics and history and American political thought. He ...

“How does a drifter, a hater, an ignorant debater, a man with no knowledge who stiffs kids seeking college come to be a tribune for sixty million, the man of the hour, one lucky break for an awesome ...

On July 1, in the fourth lecture of his so-called "10 lectures on unity," Lai Ching-te devoted much of his speech to the topic of so-called "defense." He loudly promoted ideas like "all-out ...

Though it may seem slightly cliché, as I approach graduation (yes I know it’s still two months away), I find myself looking back on my time at Penn. I have seven semesters under my belt and an eighth ...