How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic...

Donald Trump versprach vor seiner erneuten Wahl, die liberale Demokratie aus den Angeln zu heben. Er wurde nicht trotz, sondern wegen dieses Versprechens gewählt. In ihrem Bestseller Gekränkte Freiheit zeigten Carolin Amlinger und Oliver Nachtwey, wie Libertarismus und Autoritarismus miteinander verschmelzen könnten. Zwei Jahre später hat die Realität ihre soziologische Diagnose auf bedrückende...

‘Middle class,’ ‘economy,’ ‘the family as the fundamental unit of the state,’ ‘politics,’ ‘constitution,’ ‘civic duty’—we use these words and expressions without even realizing that we owe their very existence to Aristotle. He was a brilliant thinker who first introduced them in his work *Politics*, where he also pioneered social and political philosophy, establishing the study of social...

*The Prince* is the most significant and controversial work by the Renaissance Florentine statesman Niccolò Machiavelli. For many years, the book was associated with the politics of poison and the dagger. Following its publication, the term ‘Machiavellianism’ emerged to denote political cynicism, a lack of moral restraint, and duplicity. Today, however, many of the author's ideas are viewed...