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  • Arizona Case Shows the Difference Between Campus Free Speech and Harassment

    Arizona Case Shows the Difference Between Campus Free Speech and Harassment0

    Three Arizona students may soon learn a valuable lesson: There’s a difference between exercising your free speech on campus and blocking someone else’s attempt to do the same. In March, three University of Arizona students shouted down a group of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, and then chased them to their cars, hurling insults

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  • Aristotle’s Tips for Voting in the 2016 Election

    Aristotle’s Tips for Voting in the 2016 Election0

    The end of the 2016 election is in sight – thank goodness! Despite this fact, approximately 10 percent of voters are still undecided in regards to whom they will vote for. For the uncertain among us – or even for those who have already decided – some advice from Aristotle might be helpful. Throughout the

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  • Aristotle’s 6 Forms of Government

    Aristotle’s 6 Forms of Government5

    Which forms of government are best? Philosophers have sought to answer this question for millennia. Few, however, have done so with the clarity and precision of Aristotle. In Politics, the Athenian philosopher provides a simple yet insightful schema as part of his investigation of the best regime. He argues that there are six regimes overall

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  • Aristotle: 4 Reasons Private Property Is Better Than Communal Property

    Aristotle: 4 Reasons Private Property Is Better Than Communal Property0

    • July 17, 2018

    In “The Communist Manifesto,” Karl Marx aptly summarized the implications of a communist society, stating that “the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.” As an institution, private property has been a crucial factor in the flourishing of Western society and its political thought. However, its defense

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  • Aristotle on Why Some Friendships Are Evil

    Aristotle on Why Some Friendships Are Evil0

    Good friendships seem worth celebrating. But for many of us, tensions can appear from time to time between being a good friend and doing “the right thing.” When faced with, for example, a situation where it’s tempting to lie to cover for a friend, it can seem as though friendship and morality are on a

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  • Aristotle on Real vs. False Courage

    Aristotle on Real vs. False Courage0

    It seems there is no shortage of problems promising to plague Americans in the coming months. Like the six hundred in Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade, there are (pardon the parody): “Riots to the right of them, ISIS to the left of them, Diving Wall Street in front of them” In the midst of

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