English philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed that life would be "nasty, brutish and short" without a strong government. IDEAS explores how a new take on Hobbes offers a surprising perspective on the ...

Thomas Hobbes was an accomplished English philosopher, historian, and scientist. Many consider Hobbes to be one of the preeminent thinkers of the last thousand years. Many of his thoughts ...

Creator Mark L. Smith's six-episode examination of scruffy, vicious people traversing the Utah Territory in 1857 also stars Taylor Kitsch and Dane DeHaan.

Some philosophers argue that inhumanity is not explainable in rational terms, that if humans resort to barbaric acts of ...

I thought often of Thomas Hobbes’s famous quotation from Leviathan, succinctly describes the show’s world: “No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and ...

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 ...