
A History of Ideas: Habeas Corpus
How can we protect individual freedom and ensure that Governments cannot hold people without charge?

A History of Ideas: Lex Talionis and Retribution
The Lex Talionis, or law of ‘an eye for an eye’, sounds brutal, but is it in fact a way of keeping retribution in proportion?

A History of Ideas: John Rawls On The Veil of Ignorance
What would be your blueprint for a just society? Would it simply reflect the needs of your current social position? But what if you drew up the blueprint for a society with no idea what position you might hold in it?

A History of Ideas: Henry David Thoreau On Civil Disobedience
What do you do if your society has unjust laws? Simply put up with them? Start a revolution to smash the state? Philosopher Henry David Thoreau put forward the idea of civil disobedience to change unjust laws.