Under U . S . President Trump 39;s capricious gangster-type leadership akin to mafia family racketeering, in a world grappling with the implications of a post-pandemic era, marked by rising global ...

Hobbes invoked the Biblical image of a sea monster — Leviathan — to describe the “common power” and authority of the state to which people would accede to protect them from the perils of ...

Where the law is silent, the state does not remain neutral. It rather compensates for uncertainty with force. It does not ...

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) paused the reduction of the benchmark rate at 5.75% in the first policy meeting last month. No surprise here, after the US Federal Reserve Board (Fed) paused its ...

A NEW festival celebrating one of Malmesbury’s most important historical figures is due to be held in the town next month.

It was a paper tiger from the start. Philosopher Thomas Hobbes, in a wonderful turn of a phrase centuries ago, aptly described in foresight the result of each and every climate agreement to date, ...

My mistake: not realizing that the real spirit of cruelty envisioned for us all goes back to Thomas Hobbes’ conception ... council scrape and bow before a Leviathan wielding money in its many ...

In Leviathan Hobbes writes of ‘the privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only’. Nothing could be more absurd, according to Hobbes’s way of thinking, than killing ...