Politics will progressively fill out our meaning for us. In an age when the content of life seems too insubstantial to sustain us, this form of rule alone can nourish our spirit.

It’s not that deep” is usually a good way to dismiss attempts at political discourse. It’s a definitive conversation-ender on ...

The divide between left and right is one of the most fundamental markers in politics. But have you ever stopped to think about why we use those directional terms to describe ideological camps ...

How is it possible to motivate publics to do something about social problems when there is no agreement about what is and what is not moral, about who does and who does not deserve help, about what is ...

I'm sure there's an academic phrase that already describes this. But in the absence of knowing it, I will call this the strange politics of meaning assignment. Here's the idea.

Steep decline of religion among the young, and the concentration of believers on the political right, bodes ill ...

From economic to family to national security issues, Lerner outlines a politics of meaning that connects traditional liberal values to what have been inaccurately defined as conservative concerns.

When Adam Smith and a group of fellow Scots first used the word in a political sense, it meant something very different than it does today.

The incumbent vs. system affect distinction is basic in the conceptualization of political support. It is based on the premise that system affect is a more important antecedent of aggressive political ...

As Christians celebrate the Easter season, it is a good time to consider what (if any) political meaning can be found in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Christians should not over ...

The political meaning of open Open source is not a political issue, but it sometimes plays one on TV. Written by Dana Blankenhorn, Inactive Nov. 22, 2005, 12:05 a.m. PT Read now ...

We also suspect that some readers ascribed too much political meaning to pickup trucks and American flags. And readers looking for socioeconomic signals may have been foiled, too.