English philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed that life would be "nasty, brutish and short" without a strong government. IDEAS explores how a new take on Hobbes offers a surprising perspective on the ...

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, left, and US President Donald Trump during a news conference in the East Room of ...

Thomas Hobbes was an accomplished English philosopher, historian, and scientist. Many consider Hobbes to be one of the preeminent thinkers of the last thousand years. Many of his thoughts ...

He is also interested in the relationship between storytelling and education. His publications include examinations of the ideas of Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, and Alexis de Tocqueville. "that which ...

Some philosophers argue that inhumanity is not explainable in rational terms, that if humans resort to barbaric acts of ...