Craig Calhoun, Dilip Gaonkar, and Charles Taylor argue that democracies have embraced individual ...

First published in 1996. As recently as the early 1990s, people wondered what was the future of c...

First published in 1996. As recently as the early 1990s, people wondered what was the future of c...

The discipline of American studies was established in the early days of World War II and drew on ...

One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is interna...

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In this provocative analysis of global politics, the anthropologist Marc Abeles argues that the m...

The market for financial derivatives is far and away the largest and most powerful market in the ...

The period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets, the free flow of...

Novelist, television personality, political candidate, and maverick social commentator, Gore Vida...

Three leading thinkers analyze the erosion of democracy's social foundations and call for a movem...