A spirited defense of the relevance of reason for an era of popular skepticism over such matters as climate change, vaccines, and evolution. Why does reason mat

The contributions in this anthology address tensions that arise between reason and politics in a democracy inspired by the ideal of achieving reasoned agreement

In recent years, many Americans and more than a few political scientists have come to believe that democratic deliberation in Congress—whereby judgments are m

What role does war play in political development? Our understanding of the rise of the nation-state is based heavily on the Western European experience of war.