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His name turned into an adjective: 'Machiavellian'. Yet he spent most of his life defending a republic, gave his longest book to the wisdom of the people, and wrote The Prince in exile and out of work. His radicalism lies not in immorality but in treating politics as a field of knowledge separate from morality.
The Oxford political theorist traces the assault on American research back to a settlement made in 1950: science was defended as a domain outside politics, and that is precisely why it now stands exposed. Her proposal runs the other way — politicise science further.
The Stanford philosopher's new book from Harvard University Press prises apart rationality and reasonableness. For Lawlor, the reasonable person is not merely the one who infers correctly but the one who can see what matters. The New Yorker named it among the year's best.
The Albanian-born philosopher has been awarded this year's Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought. The jury singled out the way she turns a childhood spent in socialist Albania into philosophical analysis, and the fresh urgency her account of freedom acquires as authoritarianism rises.
The philosopher who carries the Frankfurt School's inheritance argues that behind social conflict lies an invisible demand: recognition. In his recent work he has taken that framework into working life, asking whether democracy can be learnt on the job.
Axel Honneth
Goldstein's new book follows a single drive: the need to matter. On her account that need lies behind humanity's greatest achievements and behind its most stubborn afflictions — loneliness, polarisation and extremism alike.
Rebecca Goldstein
On 23 August 1927 two Italian anarchists went to the electric chair despite protest across the world. On the same date in 1921, Kenneth Arrow was born, who would demonstrate the mathematical limits of collective decision.
The philosopher who set the intellectual direction of post-war Germany died in Starnberg on 14 March 2026. President Steinmeier spoke at the memorial service in Frankfurt.
Jürgen Habermas
The Michigan philosopher used her Pufendorf Lectures, delivered on 11-13 May 2026, to argue that the language of market freedom erodes political freedom.
Elizabeth Anderson
