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"THE INADEQUACY OF TREATMENT" BY TREVOR ABES

So there's this guy named Charles Leale, who's dead but is in many respects still here. He was the first doctor to touch Lincoln after he was shot... | read |

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"PERCEPTIONS OF TERRORISM: POST 9/11"

BY ERIN McIVER

The September 11th attacks were a tragedy that affected most Americans. It put terrorism on the national stage as a hot button issue. However, it also put a face on terrorism: one of Middle Eastern descent that practices Islam... | read |

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"UTOPIA A OR B" BY MIKE MERECER

Two visions for the future | read |

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"SEPARATION OF STATE AND BUSINESS, ISN'T IT TIME FOR BUSINESS TO MIND ITS OWN?"

BY DANIEL BOIS

In regards in running our lives in a spiritual sense we rely on our "church", in regards in running our lives in a civic sense we rely on our "state" and in regards in running our lives in a materialistic sense we rely on our "business". Isn't it time for Business to mind its own and allow the State to govern? | read |

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"MORALITY IN MEDIEVAL ECONOMICS"

BY MIKE MERCER

A study on usury | read |

"WHY DO SOME PEOPLE NOT UNDERSTAND JACQUES ELLUL?" BY DANIEL BOIS

Jacques Ellul wrote a book about propaganda, Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes. This book is unique because it talks about long term propaganda and most of the books today on this subject tend to speak on short term or obvious forms like advertising. | read more |

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STATE AND LIBERTY. DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA

Is the state an enemy of individual liberty? | read |

"TOCQUEVILLE AND MARX, A DIALOG" BY MIKE MERECER

This is a fictional dialog between Alex de Tocqueville and Karl Marx. It is set in a small Parisian café in the year 1844... | read more |

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"THE USE OF VIOLENCE"

Mike Mercer argues that man's actions can be controlled by violence but their minds can not, thus violence is no real solution.  | read |

"LAW, POWER, AND FREEDOM"

The long Eastern history of despotic governance contrasts with the long Western tradition of aristocratic rule... | read more |

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"A CAPITALIST WORLD"

Everyone knows that Marx does not offer a clear vision for the future. His social and economic critique is a success in the interpretation of the world, but it is huge a failure in the most important thing - the real change of the world. People who wanted power, who were not real social or economic visionaries, used his ideas for their narrow goals and Marxism was utterly discredited. But Marx's failure is also a failure of humanity... | read more |

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THE USE OF VIOLENCE

Mike Mercer argues that man's actions can be controlled by violence but their minds can not, thus violence is no real solution...  | read |

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THE FUTURE OF HUMANKIND

Prophets are always passionate. From Isaiah to Marx we see ethics and morality blended with reasoning and judgements. Prophets are not scientists, even not thinkers. Rather they are oracles of Divine. They want your soul, not your brain... | read more |

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WILHELMINE GERMANY

How did German politics change with Wilhelm II? | read more |

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PRESERVING DEMOCRACY

Tiberius Gracchus and Caius Gracchus. Two brothers from a prominent Roman family. Tiberius's life finished prematurely, killed with a piece of chair on the Capitol, close by the statues of the kings, his body was thrown in Tiber River. Tiberius's death marks the beginning of political violence in Rome. With Tiberius death Pandora's box was open in the Roman republic. About ten years later, Caius Gracchus, Tiberius's younger brother, committed suicide assisted by a slave... | read more |

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IS AMERICA THE NEW ROME?

There are astonishing similarities between the rise of the American state and power and the upsurge of Roman Republic. These likenesses are not due to the specific character of both states, rather there is a common pattern in development of every empire and the U.S. and Rome are examples of this pattern. In foreign policy both states, although their remoteness in time, shared a common approach and direction... | read |

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"THE JUDGE AS A LAWMAKER"

Essay about the role of judges in the development of the law.| read |

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THE PEACE THAT LED TO WAR

French revolutionary wars undermined the European status quo and after the defeat of Napoleon, the European powers felt urgent need for creation of more secure European order... | read |

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CHINA THREATENS AMERICA WITH ITS EXAMPLE

America and the West face a very serious challenge from the East, but not in terms of the conventional definitions of the China threat, says Stefan Halper from the American Spectator. Halper argues that China has no interest of military competition with the United States... | read |

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LESSONS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR

The Treaty of Versailles was unfair to defeated nations. If all sides were responsible for the outbreak of the war, why Germany, Austro-Hungary, Bulgaria, and in lesser extend Turkey, should pay the full price for the calamities? Allied powers did not care about this question. They continued the tradition of offence - their fears, their troubles, and their wartime sacrifices must be redeemed by their foes... | read |

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THE EVOLUTION OF GOD

In the contemporary debate on God's existence, intelligent design and natural evolution, Robert Wright stays somewhere in the middle - there is evolution, he says, and God is evolving... | read |

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