The Closing of Open Society

The Closing of Open Society

Traditionally, the United Kingdom has been an open society (OS) [1]. In a neoliberal context, an open society incorporates open education, open access to data, and free speech. Initially described...

Posted on 2022-01-28
Book Review: After Virtue

Book Review: After Virtue

Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory provides a cogent and compelling argument for virtue ethics over Kantian deontological theories and utilitarian values [1]. As a critique...

Posted on 2022-01-25
Equality of the Law

Equality of the Law

One of the most fundamental aspects of modern liberal democracy stems from the concept of equality under the law. Such a concept does not refer to the idea of all people having the same amount of...

Posted on 2022-01-21
Book Review: Bowling Alone

Book Review: Bowling Alone

In his seminal work, Bowling Alone, Robert Putman has managed to capture many of the difficulties facing society as we change and embrace technology [1]. The author initially released his work as...

Posted on 2022-01-17

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Posted on 2022-01-12
Constitutional Design Proposal

Constitutional Design Proposal

     I.         Introduction For all the benefits, the Constitution of the United States was developed in haste and through various compromises that could have been constructed in a way that...

Posted on 2022-01-09
Carnivorous Sponges

Carnivorous Sponges

A relatively recent paper from O’Hara et al. (2020), describing a scientific survey of the lower bathyal and abyssal seafloor fauna of eastern Australia, has discovered multiple new species. In...

Posted on 2022-01-04
Marx’s Stolen Theory

Marx’s Stolen Theory

It was not Marx's labor theory of value. As Lutz (2018) argues, it is the position of several French philosophers, aligned with Rousseau, that developed such an erroneous principle....

Posted on 2021-12-20
Understanding Medieval Documents: Part II

Understanding Medieval Documents: Part II

A commentary on the following charter: Carta Lucie de Brintona de tota terra quam Godwinus filius Leurich Carta Hugonis de Gurnay et Mileseint sponse sue de tota tenura Dominis suis omnibus...

Posted on 2021-12-13