In the middle of the 16th century, a 22-year-old law student in France named Etienne de la Boétie wrote an essay entitled "Discourse of Voluntary Servitude" that was circulated among academics for ...

Fredric Jameson, who died this week at age 90, was one of the last high theorists still standing. A key figure in the development of Marxist criticism, postmodernism and cultural theory, his works ...

In mid-November, China's top government agencies published a draft law to establish the country's social credit system, envisioned as a giant, fully integrated mechanism to assess every legal entity ...