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Stress Test and Survival: How Three Elections Tested Democracy

Analytical essay examining how the 2016, 2020, and 2024 U.S. elections produced a bifurcated democracy: higher turnout alongside collapsing institutional trust

Government

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Automation's Reckoning: Why Society Must Act Before Jobs Vanish

This essay argues AI and automation will displace jobs at a scale demanding universal basic income, retraining mandates, and work-time reduction — backed by

Technology

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Contested Inheritance: How American Values Shift Under Pressure

Analytical essay examining how individualism, equality, freedom, and opportunity have been repeatedly reweighted across American history from the founding era

Sociology

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Rawls Over Procedure: Fairness as the Best Fix for Inequality

Analytical essay arguing Rawls's difference principle encodes a structural reciprocity that neither procedural nor distributive justice frameworks can match in

Philosophy

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Freedom Within Limits: Why Society Must Sometimes Come First

This essay argues societal responsibility should override individual freedom in cases of clear collective harm, using vaccine mandates and communitarian

Philosophy

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,226 words

Why School Matters: Education, Skills, and Society

An essay exploring why school is important for economic success, critical thinking, racial equity, wealth creation, and society — including two educator interviews.

Education

~12 min read

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Burning Books, Burning Minds: Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

Analytical essay on Fahrenheit 451 arguing Bradbury's dystopia depicts self-chosen intellectual surrender, not mere government censorship — with close readings

Literature

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Workplace Discrimination and Preferential Hiring Debate

An essay examining preferential hiring, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and whether race- or gender-based hiring decisions solve or perpetuate discrimination.

Social Issues

~12 min read

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Broken Dreams, Bound Men: Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men

Analytical essay on Of Mice and Men arguing that Steinbeck uses George and Lennie's friendship to diagnose how Depression-era structures destroy the most

Literature

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Mandela's Moral Architecture: Servant Leadership Examined

This essay argues Nelson Mandela exemplifies servant leadership through negotiated transition, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Social Issues

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