Compass Journal
An Undergraduate Journal of American Political Ideas
Introduction The influence of Christianity persists in America despite a decline in the number of churchgoers and those who identify themselves as Christian.[1] Given this context, the contemporary …
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Andrew Farrant and Edward McPhail note that in 2010 under Obama’s administration the popularity of Hayek’s Road to Serfdom dramatically spiked (Farrant and McPhail 2010). As a result of this increased …
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Federal jurisdiction is virtually unlimited today and the strength and survivability of liberalism, our nation's animating political philosophy, is hotly debated. These issues are connected and James …
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Compass is an online journal that provides a space for the work of talented undergraduates who have original and well-articulated insights on important ideas and issues relating to American democracy understood in the broad contexts of political philosophy, history, literature, economics, and culture.
