If the election were being held now instead of November, who would you vote for? It’s an impossible choice with no good answer, but I will tell you something of my preferences. But first: Our elections have devolved into popularity contests. It's not a good way to...

by David Howard Beginning in the 1700s in Europe, we began to see the forming of a strange and seemingly self-contradictory alliance of intellectuals and artists and writers that made up a large part of what we now call the Enlightenment.  Broadly speaking,...

America was born before the Revolutionary war. It was born when thoughtful people here started reading political philosophers and theorists of the early 1700's like John Locke. At our very inception it was clear that we would stand for two things: Free Enterprise and...

A chess player who uses the screen name Timbeau wrote "There is only one political party in the US and it has two wings: One is called Democrat and the other Republican. The fundamental differences are non-existent. Both have a long history of managing the country on...

WinLoseorDraw received an internet snippet from his brother-in-law. It was a snapshot entitled "Did you Know?" It said that senators and representatives were originally paid only a per diem. The article went on to speculate that the Founding Fathers wanted to prevent...

In the years prior to the 2016 Presidential election, then President Obama took a lot of verbal abuse. WinLoseorDraw heard a lot of anti-Obama rhetoric on the softball fields while playing softball with other old guys. These guys castigated former President Obama’s...

As I type, Ambassador Sondlund is testifying. He is a campaign contributor who was rewarded with an ambassadorship. This is "Pay to Play," but it is unfortunately the norm on both sides of the isle. It is not the Republicans so much as the entire corrupt system that...

Why Culture Matters William D. Howard is a freelance writer who has been published in both secular and religious formats. He had a long career as an educator and has traveled in over 40 countries. Multiple mass murders proclaim that life is not sacred. Multiple...

Part 3. Aristotle’s views on Citizenship In the first book of his Politics, Aristotle discusses the polis (city/state) in terms of a "political community" (koin?nia politik?) as opposed to other types of communities and partnerships such as the household (oikos) and...

Part 2. Aristotle's View of Politics In Aristotle’s Politics IV.1, Aristotle wrote that the most important task for the politician is, in the role of lawgiver (nomothetês), to frame the appropriate constitution for the city-state. Commentary: More than two thousand...