Toward a Pro-Life Politics

Politics and the life cycle.

The study of politics and the life cycle began with a rather single-minded focus on childhood and the family-on the idea, as Tocqueville famously put it, that the entire person could be "seen in the cradle of the child." Politics does begin in childhood, and parents do influence their offspring, but change takes place over the entire span of life. I take up the early emergence of partisanship a...

Toward an Integrative Jurisprudence: Politics, Morality, History

Nikolas Rose : The Politics of Life Itself

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Toward a Mathematical Definition of “life”

In discussions of the nature of life, the terms “complexity,” “organism,” and “information content,” are sometimes used in ways remarkably analogous to the approach of algorithmic information theory, a mathematical discipline which studies the amount of information necessary for computations. We submit that this is not a coincidence and that it is useful in discussions of the nature of life to ...

Politics Matters: A Response to Recent Commentaries