Benjamin Cocchiaro

One of the easiest diseases to prevent is pinkeye.

Life is a constant dialectic between collective/perceived and personal identity. Societal constructs feed the former while free will feeds the latter.

Rather than adhering exclusively to force or to negotiation, between 1865 and 1912, pragmatic Americans used a combination of both hard and soft power to extend their ideas and institutions.

A brief primer on functional anatomy of the average bear.

This review explores Maalouf's enthralling historical work drawn entirely from Arab primary sources.

What divides the modern Right? What unites them?

An introduction to the significance of THR and how to calculate your own.

This essay explores the nature of musical genre as a constrictive force in the production and marketing of music.

Social liberalism is an inevitable result of classical liberalism in an age of mass or representative politics. What is more, it represents the highest stage of the liberal project.

This essay explores the impacts of the 1857 financial crisis on newspaper advertising tactics.

This essay explores the impact of the First World War on author PG Wodehouse through analysis of his pre- and post-war novels.

This essay explores Oscar Wilde's motive in writing "The Picture of Dorian Gray" using a Hegelian dialectic between Mill's utilitarian harm principle and Wilde's own writings on self-realization.

This essay explores structural violence as defined by Paul Farmer and Nancy Scheper-Hughes, and provides an economic basis for their arguments through the work of Amartya Sen.

This essay explores contemporary theory on the indigenous identity and its implications for the political strategy of indigenous groups.

As popular human rights ideologies, cultural relativism and universalism are simple and antithetical. Academically, one finds a much more complex relationship between the two perspectives, with propon...

There is too much uncertainty in Hume's moral theory. While impractical, Locke's epistemology leaves much less room for doubt.

Thirty million bison once roamed the Great Plains, and with a little policy, they can be returned. As economic conditions worsen across the plains states, the prospect of a national bison commons beco...

This essay condenses the 200-page FORA reuse report into a digestible executive summary while retaining individual policy and programmatic details.