Various Essays on Sociological Issues


Ambition and its Enemies ...

Ambition and Economic/Social well-being, by Robert J. Samuelson

What's So Nice About Friendship ?

The special relationship called friendship, by Nikki McWhirter, Knight News Service

Money in Politics ...

Speech by Bill Bradley to the National Press Club, 7/22/99 - Campaign Finance Reform,
political history, and political philosophy in general.

Various Newsweek Articles

Jonathan Alter: Take a Look In the Mirror

Article by Jonathan Alter of Newsweek highlighting the hypocracy of the Bush administration as it relates to the issues of States' Rights and privacy regarding the Schiavo case.

George Will: Leviathan in Louisiana

Article by George Will of Newsweek highlighting the sociological and economic effects of Hurricane Katrina's destruction of New Orleans. Mr. Will also discusses Hobbes's "Leviathan"; the nature of man and the need for Authoritarian rule in Iraq based on Hobbe's assumptions and empirical evidence of anarchical social behavior in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Anna Quindlen: By the Tube, For the Tube

Article by Anna Quindlen on the lack of the current administration's paying any significance to television news or general programming.

Allan Sloan: No Money? No Problem!

Article by Allan Sloan on the danger and consequences of government borrowing to our future economic health as a nation.

Interview with Hugo Chavez - Venezuelan President

Interview with Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela. Chavez discusses relations with the United States and his neighbors in the region.

Jonathan Alter: Tom DeLay's House of Shame

Article by Jonathan Alter discussing corruption in the House under the extreme right wing leadership of Tom DeLay.

Anna Quindlen: We've Been Here Before

Article by Anna Quindlen comparing the parallels between the Viet Nam war and the war in Iraq.

"Someone with a trumpet should play taps outside the White House for the edification of a president who has not attended a single funeral for the Iraqi war dead."


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