In the first book of Plato’s Republic, Socrates’s measured discussion of the nature of justice is rudely interrupted by a “roar” from Thrasymachus. “He could no longer hold his peace,” Socrates ...

In politics, utopians do not have a monopoly on imagination. Even the most conservative defenses of the status quo, Raymond Geuss argues, require imaginative acts of some kind. In this collection of ...

Professor emeritus in the faculty of philosophy at the University of Cambridge. His latest book is Not Thinking Like a Liberal. The would-be assassin Axel von dem Bussche was subject to the same ...