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This work will primarily serve to be a reflection on The Social Contract by Jean-Jacque Rousseau. In this work Rousseau deals with questions of human nature, freedom, and what is meant by the "general will" and "social contract" and the means by which a government should be organised.The operation o

Several weeks ago I discussed an article by Sebastian Purcell in which he critiques Machiavelli as a teacher of evil. In that essay, I provided a brief defence of him, but here I shall go into more detail on why Machiavelli was not, in fact, a teacher of evil, but rather an almost tragic anti-hero of Medieval Italy.I t

At the dawn of the First World War, H. G. Wells wrote this fascinating little work. The work is in some ways meant to be a description of the way in which the Great War would bring about an end to human desire for war. However, as political theory from James Burnham will tell us, we must never mistake the formal meanin

Commando tells the tale of the Boer war from the perspective of Denys Reitz. Reitz grew up in the Orange Free State in the 1880s and 90s, and was well prepared for war by the time it broke out in 1899. He grew up shooting, riding and living in the wilderness for times, while his father worked as a statesman for the Ora