Racial Residential Segregation and Racial Meaning in South Shore
*Today is June 19, also known as Juneteenth, the day of the formal proclamation of the freedom of all slaves in the former Confederate state of Texas…
*Today is June 19, also known as Juneteenth, the day of the formal proclamation of the freedom of all slaves in the former Confederate state of Texas…
Bend down, arch down Down toward the glass surfaced pond Not a ripple disturbs your amorous gaze Lower now still to witness your birth anew And with…
This strong foreigner’s strength Passed down through her father’s blood And before that from Yangban The honored class of scholars To this woman who is now The…
It is with a fair amount of hesitation, and even a bit of trepidation, that I embark upon the writing of this current essay regarding Alexis De…
The United States of America of the early nineteenth-century, the subject of Frenchman Alexis De Tocqueville’s classic work of history and political theory, was a nation in…
When asked during numerous interviews about the purpose of literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, the twentieth century’s best known Yiddish writer, in most cases claimed that he believed…
A close reading of Aristotle’s The Politics presents the political theorist or student of political theory with a range of issues for contemplation and analysis, and consequently…
First published in the Jewish Daily Forward as a series of stories under the pseudonym Isaac Warshawsky, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s memoir and short story collection was a…
During my travels in Asia and as an English Professor in South Korea, I was a member of an expatriate community consisting largely of Australians, British citizens,…
An expanded version of six lectures Leo Strauss delivered at The University of Chicago in October, 1949, under the auspices of the Charles R. Walgreen Foundation, the…
Until Thomas Hobbes boldly claimed that his Leviathan was the first true work of political science, most political philosophers had long believed that it was Socrates who…
The Politics of Aristotle includes considerable discussion concerning the several categories of inhabitants of the various types of states existent at the time of Aristotle’s writing, as…