The Forwardist Papers

The motto of enlightenment is therefore: Sapere aude! [Dare to know!] Have courage to use your own understanding! — Immanuel Kant, "An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?" published in 1784   The...

The Forward Party's method for identifying and advocating policy positions and building our political agenda to advance the general will of the people. Image is from the cover of Philosophy of Mathematics: Selected Writings...

According to legend, Alexander the Great asked Diogenes the Cynic what he considered the most valuable thing in the world. Without hesitation, Diogenes answered "parrhêsia"(a term commonly translated from Greek to express "freedom of...

The Forward Party is committed to the principle of equality   Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. addresses the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., where he gave his "I Have...

The Forward Party is committed to individual liberty, social equality, and human dignity   Details from still life by Edward Collier  

“The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise — with the occasion. As our case is new, so we...

The American political system is worth saving   A re-creation of the architecture of ancient Athens by Sir James Pennathorne.  

A rejection of the false binary narrative in politics   Illustration by Olga Grlic.  

To move forward, one must first have a starting position   The School of Athens by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael is a masterpiece created between 1509 and 1511 depicting a gathering of classical...