Studies on cultural divisions in Western European politics typically combine two different value divides. The first divide is moral traditionalism versus progressiveness, which pits the religious and secular against each other matters of procreation, family gender roles. second one authoritarianism libertarianism, captures opposition between high- low-educated about basically attitudes towards ...

This article extends work in human geography on thinking space relationally and topological space, arguing for a relational conceptualization of that employs montage small seemingly confined spaces to tell big stories. Empirically it explores micronation projected onto watery western Balkan no-man's [sic] land reveals an exploitation history underpins perceptions the southeast European peninsul...

This essay goes through Frederick 2015 (the critique) in some detail, responding to the various paraphrases and criticisms therein. It is argued that each case critique mistaken about what Lester 2012 (Escape from Leviathan: EfL) says, or presents as a sound criticism, both. Introduction: three problems with philosophical problem EfL attempting solve. “Abstract”: critique’s confusion EfL’s apri...

The central classical liberal insight is that private property appears both to protect personal liberty and promote general productivity. By way of philosophically clarifying this insight, Escape from Leviathan (EfL) posits the extreme liberal, or libertarian, Compatibility Thesis: there no long-term, systemic, practical conflict among economic rationality, interpersonal liberty, human welfare,...

They say that ideology is like breath: you never smell your own.1 And so I was not surprised to see my book The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity described as ‘ideological’ by reviewers who strike me as black pots in glass houses casting the first stone. By the same token, it is not easy for an author to defend himself against such an accusation: ‘I am not ideologi...