Constraints on Liberty and the Progression of Concepts
While the natural state of human beings, according to many philosophers of the Enlightenment and before, is freedom, humanities becomes constrained and chained by various social forces. These social f...
When a citizen has freedom, they also have a responsibility to ensure those freedoms for others. But what happens when their country allows them freedom, but restricts it for others? What is their res...
Latin America: The Struggle For Independence And National Identity
Independence in the Latin America came about in the 19th century after three centuries of colonialism. The then European superpowers in France, Spain, Portugal and Britain had for years colonialized t...
The United States was founded upon the principles of freedom of religion. Our history as a country implores us to remember the importance of this right. Everyone has the right to believe in and to p...
Religious Freedom Laws? Who benefits?
When it comes to the laws that governs us as a country many may come to realize that it seems like those laws sometimes have a blurred line or interpretation. One of these laws, as both Allen B. West ...
Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through its Songs
In their book “Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through its Songs”, Candie and Guy Carawan present a history of the Civil Rights Movement following a methodology that break...
The Evolution Of Our Modern Conception Of Human Rights
In a review of one of H. Gene Blocker’s book, Dennis Dutton writes of how Blocker sees artefacts – both historical and contemporary – as revealing the “values, beliefs, and sentiments” of a...
One the things that struck me in the article “What’s the Right to Do?” by Michael Sandel is how wrong price gouging is. I think it is a horrible practice that people do. There should be severe c...