Essay Undergraduate 1,630 words

Stress Test and Survival: How Three Elections Tested Democracy

Analytical essay arguing that the 2016, 2020, and 2024 U.S. elections have durably weakened American democracy through norm erosion, legitimacy crisis, and democratic deconsolidation.

Government

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,654 words

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 economic data and history.

Technology

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,770 words

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 to today.

Sociology

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,715 words

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 addressing inequality.

Philosophy

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,725 words

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 to make the case.

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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Essay Undergraduate 1,963 words

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

~10 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,275 words

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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Essay Undergraduate 1,772 words

Digital Kindling: How Social Media Reshapes Protest

Analytical essay examining how social media reconfigures political movements—from Arab Spring to Black Lives Matter—trading organizational depth for networked visibility.

Communications

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,865 words

Made, Not Meaning: Why AI Generation Is Impressive But Not Creative

A comparative essay arguing that AI-generated art differs fundamentally from human creativity in process, meaning, and stakes — not just in outputs.

Technology

~10 min read

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