The Social Contract outlines Rousseau’s views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized and administered. Rousseau sets forth, in his characteristically brazen and iconoclastic manner, the case for direct democracy, while simultaneously casting every other form of government as illegitimate and tantamount to slavery. Often hailed as a revolutionary document which sparked the French Revolution, The Social Contract serves both to inculcate dis ...

In Season Two of the award-winning podcast series The Social Contract, the creators have taken the show in a bold and unexpected direction. This season will be based on George S. Corey's latest book Presidential Conversations for Kids (also known as PC4K), which was inspired by and features the art of CLEO. It's "history with a wink," said Kirkus Reviews, and this podcast follows suit. Ten-year-old BFFs Georgie and GiGi travel through time on a magical skateboard meeting U.S. presidents thro ...

'The New Social Contract' is a podcast that seeks to contribute to a national conversation on how the relationship between universities, the state and the public might be reshaped as we live through the COVID-19 pandemic. Universities have existed for close to a thousand years. Across the centuries they have been places for making sense of the world and for shaping it. But under the pressures of war, political, social and economic demands, these institutions have often been remade. Join us a ...