A mericans aren’t used to having to defend democracy. It’s just been a given for so long. After all, it’s the country’s 249th birthday. But now, with experts warning that US democracy may break down ...

Martinsville City Manager Aretha Ferrell-Benavides has responded to a civil rights lawsuit filed by City Councilman Aaron ...

Diamond Del’s Mobile Gem Mining program "trained" miners in East Feliciana Parish as they washed, sifted and cleaned their ...

John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full ...

The suggestion that Rawls may be hiding his true sexuality in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it Season 3 moment changes his role in ...

Philosopher John Rawls introduced a provocative thought experiment called the “Veil of Ignorance” that can help us better understand the moral questions Asimov provokes.

Rawls’ ambitious tome offers “a systematic theory of social justice for liberal democracies”, says the Cambridge philosopher Sarah Fine. The key thought experiment in Rawls’ theory is as follows.

By Ian Watts John Rawls is pictured in 1987. Photo by Frederic REGLAIN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images achel Reeves styles herself a social democrat. The term once described those who sought to defend ...

John Rawls: The role of chance was a central theme of his work. Photograph: Reuters/Jane Reed/Harvard University News Office From this starting point, Rawls developed two key principles.