We in America have the unfortunate tendency of confusing the appearance of a thing with its true content, and this is especially true with the idea of democracy.  We like to tell ourselves that we...

On April 10, a small group gathered in the back of Desert Bloom Hydroponics to engage with and commemorate Palestinian culture in light of the current war in the Gaza Strip. Since Oct. 7, 2023, the State...

The United States government never ceases to endlessly talk about the God given rights of Americans, and the threat posed to these rights by hostile foreign powers. There is no truth in any of its...

You’ve probably heard some version of the saying “money keeps the world spinning.” Though this is just a saying, it reflects a much deeper idea that is taken to be a law of civilized society....

A republic such as ours is bound together by two overarching ideas, that of obligation (or duty) and that of right. First there is the duty that each citizen has towards every other citizen, a duty...

  Plato, in his world famous philosophical dialogue “Republic”, attempted to lay down the fundamental principles of an orderly, just and long lasting society and his work created the foundational...

It has been said that growth for its own sake is the philosophy of a cancer cell, and in recent years it is easy to envision our school that way. As a ravenous and malignant tumor, devouring everything...