Communitarianism In the 1980s communitarians displaced Marxists as the most prominent critics of liberal political theory. Communitarians share a belief that liberalism is excessively individualistic or atomistic, ignoring people's dependence on...

Communitarianism is a relatively recent development in political theory, largely of American origin. It was formulated mainly from a right-wing perspective by those dissatisfied with liberal democracy. In Europe, and particularly the United Kingdom, it...

An economic philosophy sometimes called the THIRD WAY that is opposed to the doctrine of INDIVIDUALISM and the praise of ECONOMIC MAN. A collectivist successor to socialism that opposes...

Communitarianism is a social philosophy that core assumption is the required shared ("social") formulations of the good. The assumption is both empirical (social life exhibits shared values) and normative (shared values ought to be...

Communitarianism, as a group of related but distinct philosophies, began in the late 20th century, opposing individualism while advocating phenomena such as civil society. Not necessarily hostile to social liberalism or even social democracy,...

Here's a dilemma: Mothers in your community have mobilized the police to set up Scandinavian-style "traffic sobriety checkpoints," where cops briefly detain drivers to check if they've been drinking. The American Civil Liberties Union sues the police, charging that the surprise checks violate the...

Communitarians accept elements of conservative and progressive points of view. Part of this position means tolerating ambiguity and accepting that the best system of government cannot be embodied by a single idea, and partly to use lessons from the past to reconstruct a future....

Infrastructure: Washington's response to the recent bridge collapse in Minneapolis -- a proposal to hike the fuel tax -- was typical. Why not consider privatization instead?But that, too, will get a knee-jerk reaction from politicians and bureaucrats so encrusted with obsolete notions that they can't...

Any museum that devotes an exhibition to the neo-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is guaranteed boffo box office receipts. Few artists have achieved as much posthumous celebrity or, rather, had it thrust upon them. Myth has all but engulfed the man. Van Gogh’s sister-in-law,...