As I prepare to write a post concerning American history & culture, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or previous post and might interest you further. Richard Nixon - The Reagan Administration What happened with inflation in the 1970's? Was it handled well? What happened to Gerald Ford? Was he a good president? What were "Reganomics"? Was Reagan good at economics? Did Reagan's military guidelines,

As I prepare to write a post concerning government & American culture, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or previous post and might interest you further. Poverty - Inequality Define materialism. How has materialism fluctuated with poverty rates? How has government affected those rates? What's the difference between market & government entrepreneurs? Are there cons to both business models? Do eithe

As I prepare to write a post concerning American history & culture, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or previous post and might interest you further. New Age / Counter Culture - Nixon Shock & Water Gate How did government affect traditional marriage in the 1970's? Was this a positive change, & how can government force such large cultural shifts? Why might some modern American Catholics advocate f

As I prepare to write a post concerning the study of Economics & American culture, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or previous post and might interest you further. Prices of Producer Goods - Profit Production, Equity & Investment How does supplying labor affect producer goods? How does capital value work? What is the flaw in only having a barter economy? What is the major correlation between pro

As I prepare to write a post concerning government & American culture, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or previous post and might interest you further. Critics of Liberalism - The Standard of Living What is the flaw in Thomas Nagel's impersonal worldview? What is G.A. Cohen's contradiction bewteen his "eye lottery" analogy & property rights? Does his "fix" of this contradiction work as an actual

As I prepare to write a post concerning the study of Economics & American culture, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or previous post and might interest you further. Unhampered Market Economy - Prices of Consumer Goods How is the economy hampered? Is an unhampered market preferable or even attainable? Is a gerneral medium of exchange such as fiat paper money more or less beneficial to the economy

As I prepare to write a post concerning American history & culture, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or previous post and might interest you further. Civil Rights & the Supreme Court - Lyndon Johnson What happened to the culture during Kennedy's tax cuts in the 60's? What was the Warren Court & it's affect on western culture? Why were welfare programs initially instated? Are they now, or were the

As I prepare to write a post concerning government & American culture, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or previous post and might interest you further. Human Rights & Property Rights - Critics of Liberalism Are property rights or free speech rights more valuable to keeping the peace? How does government interference disrupt that peace? Define negative vs positive rights. With that definition in

As I prepare to write a post concerning the study of Economics & American culture, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or previous post and might interest you further. Scope of Economics: Human Action - Voluntary Echange & the Division of Labor How does rational & irrational behavior amongst the common people affect the economy & how economists think? How does time change the value the individual pl

As I prepare to write a post concerning American history & culture, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or previous post and might interest you further. Television & Elvis - The Civil Rights Movement Did Elvis Presley have a siginficant impact on western culture? How? How did the sitcom Happy Days have a large cultural impact? What was the main outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis? What was the "Doub

As I prepare to write a post concerning government & American culture, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or previous post and might interest you further. John Locke & Self-Ownership - The Tale of the Slave Where was John Locke off in his theory of self-ownership's government aid? How do the ehtics of argumentation rule out government? Is there such a thing as free government in the modern day? Was

As I prepare to write a post concerning the study of Economics & American culture, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or previous post and might interest you further. Supply & Demand - Method of Economics How do personal preferences affect supply & demand? How much of a difference does that make large scale? How does pice elasticity affect small businesses? Why doesn't money have a fixedvalue? Is t

As I prepare to write a post concerning American history & culture, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or previous post and might interest you further. Harry Truman - The Early Civil Rights Movement How did Truman's actions, (excused by wartime events) create a snowball affect regarding how Constitutional America truly is today? How has post-war conservatism since affected American culture? How did

As I prepare to write a post concerning government & American culture, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or previous post and might interest you further. National or Federal? - Natural Rights Theories: High Middle Ages to Late Scholastics What is the distinction between the people being sovereign & mob rule? How is that distinction treated today? What happened to the 10th Amendment in modern law?

As I prepare to write a post concerning American history & culture, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or previous post and might interest you further. Franklin Roosevelt - The History of Foreign Aid Programs How did FDR affect the left vs. right wing culture? How did the U.S. field such a large free armed force in WWII & how did that impact the U.S. outside of war efforts? What was the Casablanca

As I prepare to write a post concerning the study of Economics & American culture, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or previous post and might interest you further. Principles of Economics - Specialization of Trade How can understanding economics be helpful to an average person's daily living? How do specialization & trade create economic cooperation?

As I prepare to write a post concerning Government & American culture, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or previous post and might interest you further. From Natural Rights to Confederation of States - Save Liberty--or Endanger It? John Locke & Montesque answered different philosophical questions that ultimately shaped the people's views of government, what it is, & how it should be. What is the

As I prepare to write a post concerning American history & culture, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or previous post and might interest you further. Franklin Roosevelt & the New Deal II - FDR vs Gold & the Home Front (1930's) How did birds from the Schechters lead to calling out NRA's abuse of the Constitution? Did things change? What is the difference between a federal transfer program & genuin

As I prepare to write a post concerning American history & culture, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or previous post and might interest you further. Calvin Coolidge - Franklin Roosevelt & the New Deal, I (1923 - 1945) How did the Roaring Twenties happen all over the world at the same time? How did Roosevelt posing himself as Hoover's opposite change political strategy & public values? How did th

As I prepare to write a post concerning American history & culture, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or previous post and might interest you further. More Amendments; Then, a Return Normalcy - The 1920s & the Myth of Isolationism (1909 - 1920's) How has the feminist movement changed since Jeannette Rankin (first woman in Congress) would she approve of how things are today based on her actions wh