… recent presidential election brought to the forefront of the American public’s mind the question of whether the Electoral College remains an appropriate method of electing the nation’s highest-ranking public official. Although the closeness of…

… movies, music and books to have nothing to do with “inspiring cold blooded murders.” As an example he uses when Cain killed his own brother Abel. Manson says, “The only motivation he needed was his own human disposition to violence.” The next major…

… Story of a Gun", The Atlantic Monthly. January 1993. Pooley, Eric. "Kids with Guns." New York. August 5, 1991. Gun control, as we know it, consists of the government restricting the ability of individual citizens to purchase weapons. The different…

… it might not be as many today as it was a few years ago, or even a few months ago. Some people I talk to are not concerned that police will execute a search warrant without knocking or that they set up roadblocks and stop and interrogate innocent…

… House of Lords considers legal arguments that Augusto Pinochet is immune from prosecution, Amnesty International UK today released details of some of the 80 children under 16-years-old killed or "disappeared" by Chilean security forces during his rule.…

… reading the writings of Machiavelli it can be surmised that he was not a moral writer of his generation but can be more accurately viewed as a political writer. Machiavelli's family history and personal experiences were assets that he employed…

… attempt to control nature by changing the course and speed of a river. Is controlling nature a worthwhile goal for humankind? Should we try to live in harmony with nature instead? Throughout history, philosophers such as John Muir, Henry David…

… and deTocquiville ;two of the great social thinkers of all time, believed, you have to understand what was going on at the time. They were living in the peak of the Industrial Revolution. The cities that housed this revolution were overflowing with…

… rest of the nation? President Clinton’s last minute pardons before leaving the White House has left a lingering shadow over his two year Presidency. To understand this controversy, we would need to discuss the Mar Rich pardon, the Glenn Braswell pardon…

… that affirmative Action is a form of racism, it is actually used to help minorities find employment in an otherwise racist world. “In the United States, equality is a recurring theme. It has flared into a fervent moral issue at crucial stages of…