James Madison is known as the “Father of the Constitution” – but he was so much more than that. As author of the Virginia Plan and the Bill of Rights, his political genius proved vital in the founding of our nation.

Josia Ober, classicist and political scientist at Stanford Universtiy, talks about existing democracies with elite capture on the one hand and economic inequality turning into political inequality on the other hand and how we can use the...

Political theorist John Dunn, University of Cambridge, compares and contrasts how well the USA and China have been governed from an economic and human rights perspective since 1979 up to the present day.

Political theorist John Dunn (Cambridge) voices his concerns on the detachment of many political scientists from the real world of actual human societies.

An 1869 study incorrectly stated that black Union soldiers had lower lung capacity than white soldiers. 150 years later, this same study is impacting the health and disability diagnosis of black patients. Structural segregation is still...

Mr. Beat explains the difference between capitalism, socialism, and communism. Karl Marx was the one who first articulated it, but boy is he misunderstood by many today.