The perennial vilification of ever-sinister capitalism by progressives in the academy and the media, who in turn extol the virtues of utopian socialism, has led to a war not so much of ideas as of expletives. Before the accumulated debris of connotations all but obliterates rational discourse, a conceptual reboot must be performed before the […]
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Media Censorship During World War II
Media censorship is a hot topic in the modern information landscape. Countless sources – in what some might deem a digitiocracy – continually test the ideas of freedom of the press and freedom of expression. Net neutrality, which halted servers from barring access to various webpages from users, has been repealed by the Federal Communications […]
Alexander Hamilton and the Politics of Pandemic
A deadly virus suddenly claims thousands of lives. People cover their mouths with makeshift masks in a bid to avoid exposure. Anxious officials look for buildings to repurpose into provisional hospitals to accommodate the sudden surge of patients. Doctors on the front lines fall ill themselves; a number of these brave physicians lose their lives. Some commentators blame foreigners for […]
Walter Lippmann, Authority, and American Constitutionalism
We all have heard the phrase “constitutional crisis” used to describe the present political strife over the interpretation of our founding documents. While one might understandably see these disagreements as a contemporary issue, such crises are hardly new. Opposing interpretations of our constitution reflect America’s perennial problem with authority, that age-old menace to man’s ambition […]
Thomas Hobbes and A Society Divided
The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia is, for anyone who wanders through its doors, a rather morbid place. Unlike the many museums of art and history that dot the city, the Mütter is obscure, known only by those who seek it. It resides in a small, unassuming building, within which one finds much of the disorder […]
