Machiavelli The Morphing of Machiavellian Ideas In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries the common people relied on the princes of the day for protection. These princes, therefore, exercised absolute power over their state. They had a duty to protect the people and their land, and ...

Hoffer and the "True Believer" When president Dwight D. Eisenhower referred to Eric Hoffer's The True Believer in a nationally televised address in the 1950s, the public must have thought that mentioning the works of the "longshoreman philosopher" in a formal address t...

The tragedy known as the "Holocaust" took place from 1938-1945 during World War II. This was a horrific span of time in which the Jewish faith was persecuted and tormented beyond comprehension for their beliefs and way of life. As many as six million Jews died, almost two-thirds of the Je...