Enquiry: A Publication of the AHI Undergraduate Fellows | vol. X
In her recent article, Ms. Zuckerman contends that “the Second Amendment and the right of an individual to own guns are two distinct ideas” and thus that the Constitution does not guarantee an individual right to firearm ownership. This, however, simply is not borne out by the weight of contemporaneous statements, assumptions, and acts at the time it was adopted.
Read MoreFor many, spring is the season of emerging flowers and pastel colors. For some Hamilton College seniors, it means anticipating decisions from the Fulbright Commission on their applications for one of the approximately 1,900 research, study, and teaching grants for recent American college graduates and graduate students. Receiving a grant is an incredible accomplishment, and Hamilton boasts numerous Fulbright scholars among its alumni.
Read MoreIn the era of President Trump, political speech by businesses and business leaders is now under more scrutiny and more controversial. Many businesses and their executives have come under fire for donations to political campaigns, often through industry interest groups, and the criticism has led to frustration among corporate leaders. Companies were condemned from the left when their chief executives took part in Trump’s now-defunct business advisory council, even though they were preaching positions of moderation and stressing business over politics.
Read More“Speak softly, and carry a big stick.” These are the words most often associated with a bellicose, adventurous, and strong “alpha” man. He was the president who set the stage for hawkish foreign policy, and began the age of American imperialism. For most people, he was a larger-than-life character, almost cartoonish in that sense. This is, of course, President Theodore Roosevelt.
Read MoreSophocles was born just outside of Athens in 496 BC to a well-to-do family and lived to be 90 years old. He wrote more than one hundred plays, of which only seven in complete form have survived: Ajax, Antigone, The Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. He was a contemporary of another great playwright, Euripides, and wrote most of his plays after those of Aeschylus.
Read MoreRecently a story went viral about a couple who decided to leave the world behind and sail around the globe but sank while trying to leave the marina. The twenty-somethings decided they’d had enough of the rat race, quit their jobs as timeshare salesmen and Uber drivers, sold their possessions, and bought an old sailboat to pursue their dreams, telling reporters: “Money isn’t everything.” Haven’t we all had that fantasy?
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