The Ideals of Mill in Modern Application

Mill’s ideas on freedom seem simple enough; as long as it’s not a nuisance or interfering with others’ lives, you are free to do as you please.  Others can criticize you for what they see as wrong doings, but they have no right to actually stop you (Mill, 600-620).  It simple terms, if its not [...]

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Is America Becoming Socialist?

In  “The Communist Manifesto” Marx and Engels explore the positives features of both socialism and communism. And with the problems that capitalistic America today is suffering from, socialist ideas are beginning to once again gain supporters. In fact, many have made the claim that President Obama is even implementing socialist ideas and cite the motor [...]

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Women in Politics

Rachel Koresky Women taking on roles that are usually thought of as a man’s role has become increasing prevalent. However, there are still many obstacles that women must overcome to enter a role typically held by a man. A role that women have recently begun to become more involved in is politics. The 2008 presidential [...]

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Mill and Women in Combat

After reading the first two chapters of Mill’s The Subjection of Women I cannot help but consider the strides women have made in terms of equality with men. Certainly the opportunity in the United States for women to become educated, a major concern of Mill, is equal to men. Women can now obtain the same jobs [...]

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Is America a Christian Nation?

“Society can and does execute its own mandates; and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves [...]

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My modern day Mill

“Christians were cast to the lions, but the Christian church grew up a stately and spreading tree, overtopping the older and less vigorous growths, and stifling them by its shade.  [While today] our merely social intolerance kills no one, roots out no opinions, but induces men to disguise them, or to abstain from any active [...]

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Currency, Education, and the Social Contract

Last week in class we talked extensively on the concept of money and how it has played a crucial role in Locke’s social contract, to the extent where some political theorists argue that it is a type of social contract in its own right. At first this claim seemed a bit far-fetched to me, that [...]

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My modern day Machiavelli

Although Nicolo Maciavelli’s advice to Lorenzo de’ Medici is postmarked by 504 years (to be exact), a time when it was often that rulers acquired other states and dominance was a required benchmark, many of us find that his advice is curiously sound in the world we live in today.  I mean sure, Machiavelli’s recommendation [...]

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