Trumpism and the Department of Government Efficiency are returning American society to a primitive state of nature.

Calvin and Hobbes were named after philosophers, and Watterson criticized both Thomas Hobbes' and John Calvin's philosophy. Hobbes is all too often too willing to maul or to hunt. He also has a ...

The oldest is “superiority theory”. English philosopher Thomas Hobbes explained in is 1651 book Leviathan we “maketh those Grimaces called LAUGHTER” when we realise we’re better off than ...

Nostalgia for a bygone gender regime is more than a weird social media trend. It reflects larger system pressures — on elites ...

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 ...

Thomas Hobbes, one of the first modern political thinkers, argued in “The Leviathan” (1651) that people need a strong ruler to save them from a “state of nature” where life is “solitary ...