Pranav Joshi·Oct 24Book Review: Democracy in AmericaIt took me a long time to get to Democracy in America, a seminal work by Alexis de Tocqueville, French politician, philosopher and…
Bigcaptain·Oct 22Thomas Jefferson: The Man Who Wrote Freedom While Living in BondageHistory is filled with remarkable people, but few are as fascinating—or as contradictory—as Thomas Jefferson. He helped give birth to the…
pebblesgarden·Oct 4The imperial core is no longer confined to the westCentral thesis: Colonization may have ended, but its economic structure is being upheld by non-western regional cores that mirror colonial…
InOpen MicrophonebyTerrance Ó Domhnaill·Jun 17The Village Oak TreeIrish Slavery and the Myth of American ExceptionalismA response icon14A response icon14
InTHE BERGER DISPATCHbyJ.M. Berger·Jun 8The ‘ positive good’ argument: Defending extremism in the status quoWhen extremists have clearly established control over a territory, their strategies shift from mobilizing to demobilizing.
Alicia Michele Benjamin·Jun 2OpinionRemembering Our Ancestors: Why Celebrating Juneteenth Is Important
Richoka·Apr 14E21–14: Is It Justice if a Master Kills His Slave and Is Only Punished?“If a person beats his male or female slave with a stick so severely that he dies, he is to be punished; except that if the slave lives for…
Lee McQueen [BA, Poli Sci & Master of Lib Science]·Apr 4Legal Brief: Reparations for Descendants of the Freedmen Identified in the U.S. ConstitutionIssue: Denial of reparations to descendants of the Freedmen recognized in the U.S. Constitution constitutes unconstitutional unequal…
Samuel Omwenga·Mar 26Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857): The Man, the Myth, and the Decision That Broke the NationWhen the Supreme Court decided Dred Scott v. Sandford, it did more than interpret the Constitution. It exposed the moral fault line running…