Modern political thought possesses an uneasy relationship with authority.We depend upon authority everywhere while increasingly speaking as though authority itselfwere…

The modern political landscape contains an apparent contradiction.Feminism is normally associated with the political Left.Yet increasingly there are women, commentators…

Few movements have transformed the social structure of the modern West as profoundly asfeminism.Its influence reaches far beyond elections or…

Few words in modern political language carry as much ideological weight as patriarchy.It is invoked to explain disparities in wealth,…

Before there was a parliament, there was a household.Before there was a bureaucracy, there was kinship.Before there was a welfare…

Every civilisation possesses an idea of the human person.It may never be formally written into a constitution. Ordinary people may…