Charlie Chaplin Modern Times

Marx, Karl and Friedech Hegel. The German Ideology. Modern Political Thought: Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche. 2nd ed. Ed. David Wootton. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company. 2008. 775-797. Print.

Marx, Karl and Friedech Hegel. The Communist Manifesto. Modern Political Thought: Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche. 2nd ed. Ed. David Wootton. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company. 2008. 798-815. Print.

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Censorship

Today Australia’s minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy, Stephen Conroy, had a press release detailing plans to “improve safety of the Internet for families.” Essentially announcing that Australia would now force Internet service providers to filter websites which contain RC(Refused Classification)-rated material. From the press release, RC-rated material includes “child sex abuse content, [...]

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Honey, It’s All About Top Down and Upside Down..

When John Stuart Mill wrote his essay “Subjection of Women”, he argued that business partnership should be the ideal model for marriage in order for women’s emancipation and a better marriage (Mill 672) as this would create an ‘equal’ atmosphere of interaction. A television advertisement is depicting a happy family in a suburban setting, the [...]

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Karl Marx Today

In spite of the collapse of communism around the world, Marxism and its worldview are still popular in today’s political discourse. President Obama’s recent efforts to reform the American healthcare system and other initiatives have oftentimes been met with warnings of Marxism. They claim that president Obama is creating class warfare in order to justify [...]

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Identity Theft: Security vs. Liberty

Every decision in life is a trade off, whether or not you take the bus or walk, what type of clothing you wear, whether you study or go out.  All decisions come with consequence. Hobbes mused about a more serious tradeoff in many of his writings, a tradeoff that is faced regularly by sovereigns governing [...]

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Machiavellianism in a Democracy

During the 1500s, the main form of government in Europe was a monarchy: a king who solely ruled his kingdom and was supported by a group of nobles. Niccolo Machiavelli wrote his famous book The Prince based on this feudal system, teaching what he believed to be basic principles of governance for a ruler. In [...]

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Hobbesian Government in Zimbabwe

Political Theorists continually question the practicality of Hobbesian theory in modern day societies. They ask if his concept of a government based on a sovereign is applicable to nations today. Zimbabwe has a government that generally appears to follow Thomas Hobbes’ theory, yet there remain certain aspects of the current President’s rule that differ from [...]

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Our Government and the Neo-Classical Model

Throughout history the president of the U. S. has always been judged, and held responsible, by the public for ever thing he does.  This is still the case today.  Since the mid 1930s things such as approval ratings, which measure a random sample of American’s opinion of the President, have existed.  If the President is [...]

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Before it’s too Late …

As a first semester freshman at the University, I have been constantly reminded to lock my door, watch my purse, never leave my laptop unattended, walk home with a group and know how to say no. The list goes on.  With all of these precautionary hints of advice from our surrounding influences: parents, teachers, administration [...]

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Sec.#12 My new ideas of Politics

Growing up in a household where the highest level of education is a high school diploma, I learned to summarize politics into two categories; democrats and republicans. Additionally, democrats were for the poor people and republicans were for the rich people. Before entering this class that was the only thing I knew about politics. Furthermore, [...]

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