What is freedom? What is equality? And what is sovereignty? A foundational text of modern political philosophy, Rousseau's Social Contract has generated much debate and exerted extraordinary influence ...

The Observer newspaper recently celebrated its twentieth anniversary, making it the second-longest running mainstream independent newspaper after the Monitor.It is remarkable that the paper has been ...

The work of Feinman and Blanton concludes modern societies inevitably decline primarily for this reason: the social contract ...

The response to the pandemic, and to the widespread discontent that preceded it, must be based on a New Social Contract and a New Global Deal that create equal opportunities for all and respect ...

Everyone participates in the social contract every day, and we rarely stop to think about it. Yet social contracts shape every aspect of our lives, including how we raise our children and engage in ...

ccording to the Debian New Maintainer process, there are approximately 1,500 Debian Developers. Each and every one of us agreed to uphold the Debian Social Contract when we asked to have our key added ...

The chairman of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) and chief of opposition alliance Mahmood Khan Achakzai said that the extension shouldn't be given to a person who reaches the age of 60.'The ...

But why is there such poor tax-compliance in Nigeria? Well, because the Nigerian state has violated the social contract with ...

The notion of “social license”, framed in fictional, social contract terms, should propel those with a scintilla of integrity and wisdom to take arms and rage. The official literature and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ireland’s new taoiseach, Simon Harris, has promised a “new social contract” as he took up the job ...