The ocean liner Leviathan was one of the largest and most popularly recognizable passenger ships on the Atlantic in the 1920s. Like all ocean liners, the ship was at once a complex and powerful ...

English philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed that life would be "nasty, brutish and short" without a strong government. IDEAS explores how a new take on Hobbes offers a surprising perspective on the ...

A little more than two centuries ago, Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury published his great treatise on government, under the title of Leviathan; or, the Matter, Form, and Power of the Commonwealth ...

This theory appeared in one of his most famous works, Leviathan. Hobbes was born on April 5, 1588, in a town called Malmesbury, located in Wiltshire, England. While not much is known about his ...

Creator Mark L. Smith's six-episode examination of scruffy, vicious people traversing the Utah Territory in 1857 also stars Taylor Kitsch and Dane DeHaan.

His goal was to impress people. 'He called it the Missouri Leviathan - referring to the biblical sea monster - and had some pretty interesting theories about the way it life. Koch believed it was an ...

In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes famously described the life of man in an uncivilized state as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." In Netflix's American Primeval, a new six-episode miniseries ...