Category Archives: Political Science
Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problem: The Profit Motive and Media Consolidation in the US
St. Thomas University 8 April 2009 Media ownership, like wealth, tends to accumulate into fewer and fewer hands in a capitalist economy. This leads to an increase in the importance of profit over content, a homogenization of opinion and a … Continue reading
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East and West and Paranoia: The Origins of the Cold War in Germany
East and West and Paranoia: The Origins of the Cold War in Germany St. Thomas University 2007 The cold war was started by both the United States and Russia. It began because two countries with very different governments, a lot … Continue reading
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Law According to Bonhoeffer, King, and Socrates
Socrates, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King all believe that human laws are not, in and of themselves, perfect. They argue that laws can not stand alone, but must rest on something much more fundamental, the divine laws, the laws … Continue reading
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Lacking Causation: Putnam and Civic Disengagement
Lacking Causation: Putnam and Civic Disengagement St. Thomas University 2 March 2006 In his article, Civic Disengagement in Contemporary America, Robert D. Putnam is arguing that there has been a huge disengagement in civic life. He claims that people are … Continue reading
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The evils of lesser evils: Ignatieff and the statist response to terrorism
The evils of lesser evils: Ignatieff and the statist response to terrorism St. Thomas University 2007 A statist response to terrorism is ineffective. It regards terrorism as something that it is not, and fights it in a way that does … Continue reading
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