Many of you who read Ike’s Anvil regularly stay up-to-date on the minute details of everyday campaign activities: he tweeted this, she said that, they had this for dinner– and here’s how it all impacts the overall election. However, most people don’t follow politics like a political scientist should. We have lives for Pete’s sake. […]
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David Wemer ’14 Old rivalries die hard. It has been a full two decades since the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, yet the United States and the Russian Federation have still failed to warm up to each other. From the crisis in Syria and the European Missile Shield […]
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Anyone Miss the Cold War?
Michael Arnone ’15 Having lived my entire life in the two decades following the fall of the Iron Curtain, I find it difficult to fully grasp the disturbing realities of the Cold War. But I, along with those in my generation, need not enroll in a history class to see how the collapse of the […]
Cody Segraves ’14 The political philosophy of libertarianism is often defined as fiscally conservative and socially liberal. This could not be further from the truth, however. In order to understand why this definition is incorrect, one must first understand what the terms “liberal” and “conservative” mean in the American lexicon. It is more accurate to […]
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Education in America
Josh Alley ’15 For all the talk of “No Child Left Behind” and a “Race to the Top,” the fact remains that America’s education system is underperforming woefully. This has severe ramifications for our economy and future as a nation, as well as for the children who pass through the system. While there has been […]
Jay O’Connor ’12 Given the current turmoil in world financial markets regarding national debt levels, inflationary monetary policy, and the ever encroaching powers of the U.S. government in the global economic system, a drastic change is necessary. As the scope of our national government’s ability to mandate economic policy begins to far exceed the levels […]
