Getting the Insight Out
Feminist scholar Peggy McIntosh was the first to coin the term “white privilege”. Throughout her years in the field of women’s studies, she noticed that while men were often willing More
Max Weber’s theory of power was foundational in the study of power in political sociology. Indeed, he was amongst the first to introduce a social dimension to power. He defined More
A basic tenant of the scientific method is the criteria of falsifiability. Developed by the theorist Karl Popper, falsifiability refers to the quality of a theory that can be proven More
Emile Durkheim, one of the fathers of modern sociology, was interested in understanding the social significance of religion. Durkheim constructed a story of the emergence of religion. He identified collective More
Imagine an interview, where an intellectual tells a journalist that he opposes all types of civic, political and religious freedoms because he sees them as threatening to the stability of More
Tocqueville was concerned with the question of the preservation of political liberty under equal social conditions. He witnessed great political instability in France after the revolution of 1789 and saw More
Adam Smith is one of the founding figures of capitalism. As such, it is often falsely derived that he was a staunch defender of the free market and small government. More
Last April the Washington Post published an article titled “How Justin Trudeau is sacrificing science in the name of aboriginal peace,” penned by J.J. McCullough. The article contends that Trudeau’s More
Anarchy is a commonly accepted characterization of international relations in political theory. Realist and neorealist thinkers adopt the premise that anarchy is fundamental and consequential. Waltz, in his influential Theory More
Fifty years ago, Isaiah Berlin made an important contribution to the field of political theory with his speech “Two Concepts of Liberty” where he distinguished between positive and negative liberty. More