Jon A. Shields and Joshua M. Dunn Jr. are the authors of Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in The Progressive University, a new book from Oxford University Press on what life is like for conservatives in the academy.

Following the U.K.’s “Brexit” vote to leave the European Union, former U.S. Treasury Secretary and Harvard University President Emeritus Larry Summers had harsh words about the accuracy of political science.

Something has gone missing from American politics. Since the beginning of the new administration in January, public debate focused on general ideas has largely disappeared.

It has been over a half-century since the heralded British political theorist Michael Oakeshott published his most acclaimed work, Rationalism in Politics.

At scattered events across the United States, protesters are confronting members of Congress whose summer "town hall" meetings aim to get a sense of how Americans feel about overhauling healthcare...

A media expert and author of several books on presidential politics will give the St. Ambrose University’s Sixth Annual Folwell Lecture in Political Science and Pre-Law Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 7 p.m. in the ballroom of the Rogalski Center on the SAU campus...

Barack Obama has now been center stage for two years—one as a presidential candidate (and president elect) and one as president. . . .

Ed Gillespie, the former GOP chairman and counselor to President George W. Bush, and top pollster Whit Ayres on Tuesday are launching Resurgent Republic, a group aimed at shaping the debate as the party regenerates itself for the upcoming elections...