John Stuart Mill male, deceased

John Stuart Mill, (20 May 1806 - 8 May 1873) British philosopher, political economist and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker...

Eric Alterman male

Eric Alterman is a liberal American journalist, author, media critic, blogger, and educator, possibly best known for the political weblog named...

Daniel Pipes male

Daniel Pipes (born September 9, 1949) is an American historian and counter-terrorism analyst who specializes in the Middle East. He has written or...

Jürgen Habermas male

Jürgen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and American pragmatism. He is best known for his work o...

Henry Kissinger male

Henry Alfred Kissinger (born Heinz Alfred Kissinger on May 27, 1923) is a German-born American diplomat, and 1973 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He...

Alexis de Tocqueville male, deceased

Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville was a French political thinker and historian best known for his "Democracy in America" (appearing in t...

Isaiah Berlin male, deceased (United States)

Sir Isaiah Berlin, OM (June 6 1909 – November 5 1997), was a political philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal th...

Amartya Sen male

Amartya Kumar Sen CH (Hon) ("Ômorto Kumar Shen") (born 3 November 1933), is an Indian economist, philosopher, and a winner of the Bank of Sweden P...

Jeremy Bentham male, deceased

Jeremy Bentham - June 6, 1832) was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He was a political radical and a leading theorist...

Paul Berman male

Paul Berman is an American author and journalist who writes on politics and literature. His articles have been published in The New Republic, The...