Category: Class-article
In the News… The Burden of Office
The orderly functioning of society seems to require that certain powers are ceded to some individuals, on the implicit if not explicit understanding t [...]
EDITORIAL: The Abuse of Power (2)
The common saying that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely has never struck me as quite right. Certainly we see the corrupt employme [...]
Poetry Section
This poem was written during the 2016 American Presidential election, but, sadly, it speaks to current US politics too. JRSea Lions During the Americ [...]
Power, Love and Listening: an Observation of Shakespeare’s Drama
The urge to gain or hold onto power over other people is a prominent motive for the characters in Shakespeare’s plays, as it is in many – if not most [...]
Does Donald Trump Read Shakespeare?
Donald Trump did not invent abuse of power. Four hundred years ago, the greatest of all writers recognized that the ways power is applied in human rel [...]
The Value of Studying Philosophy
The development office of my alma mater contacted me early last March about leaving the university some money in my will. My undergraduate adventure w [...]
Some Observations on Machiavelli’s The Prince
We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdo [...]
How to Find Abuses of Power
When we think about abuse of power, most of us, including me, find ourselves in the position of the Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Cou [...]
THE ROBERT LATIMER CASE: TEN COMMON MISREPRESENTATIONS
Vocal minorities have at times served a useful social purpose in bringing injustices to public attention, as in the Black Lives Matter movement. At ot [...]