Exploring Plato’s Cave

Thomas F. Remington Garvard University, Cambridge

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15826/csp.2026.10.1.381

Abstract

Steven Pinker. (2025). When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life. Scribner.
Simon Winchester. (2023). Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic. Harper.
Ian McEwan. (2025). What We Can Know. Knopf.

Author Biography

Thomas F. Remington, Garvard University, Cambridge

Thomas F. Remington is Goodrich C. White Professor (Emeritus) of Political Science at Emory University and Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard University. Among his books are Beyond Wars and Cartels: The Reconstruction of Postwar Europe (Routledge, forthcoming); The Returns to Power: A Political Theory of Economic Inequality (Oxford University Press, 2023); Presidential Decrees in Russia: A Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2014); and The Politics of Inequality in Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He has research interests in the political sources of economic inequality in the United States, Russia, China and Germany, as well as issues related to education, skill formation, and workforce development.