Thinking Out Aloud

Recurring periods of unification were a notable feature of the history of China; notably the Qin - Han (221BC-220), Sui - Tang (589-907),...

Vladimir Lenin gave his name to Leninism , a way of operationalising revolutionary socialism. In fact, essentially the only way that has p...

Slavery remains a live issue, as discussed in the  Global Slavery Index . The Index uses the following operational definition of slavery : ...

Bigotry (in the sense of prejudice-by-category) is a form of moral exclusion--one excludes some group from the moral consideration and stan...