By: Daniel McCombs "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." –Benjamin Franklin I often overhear people use Franklin's quote to the point that it's become kitsch and meaningless. It seems like people only use it for its convenience…
By: Thomas Rhodin In many respects the bi-partisan, Democrat-and-Republican system that we've grown accustomed in the past couple hundred years has failed. Too many voices, yet only two parties to represent the entirety of the nation's desires and needs, with the occasional third party Independent. And then with this…
By: Daniel Welsh So what was so radical about the American Revolution? Well, Gordon Wood, professor of history emeritus at Brown University, proposes that the radicalism that sustained and bred society as we know it wasn't quite that radical. In fact, most of us today would probably scoff at…