As Social Security crumbles and pension funds are on ever shakier ground, retirement is less and less of a given...

A summary sentence describing the transformation of social contract theory from the protection of liberty into a threat.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit

My old neighborhood is in flames. For twenty years, I lived four blocks east and one or two blocks (two different residences) south of the now-infamous Third Precinct. I now live in a outer-ring suburb

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Constitutions are hailed as timeless documents for the securement of freedom, prosperity and liberty in many countries on Earth. For most people living in the United States this seems especially significant,

The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may be considered the result of a contract, etc.

This time was too close for comfort, but we can be sure there will be a next time, especially with government choice to engage in war rather than in the U.S. economy/social services/infrastructure, or

“Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.” This famous opening line of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s equally famous essay, appears, to our modern minds, to point clearly toward an obvious question: