ACADEMICS

Academic Readings

The Good Society: Dr. Michael Collins

1. Table of Contents

2. Heaney: Crediting Poetry

3. Plato: Seventh Letter

4. Fugard: On David Thoreau's Walden

5. Documents of American Government

6. Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address

7. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self Reliance

8. Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience

9. Martin Luther King Jr.: Letter from Birmingham City Jail

10. Brennan:The Contemporary Constitution

11. Fang Lizhe: Human Rights in China

12. Weil:Draft for a Statement of Human Obligations

13. Havel: The Politics of Hope

Political Philosophy and International Affairs: Dr. Antony Sullivan

1. Course Description

2. Course Syllabus

Section 1: The "Clash of Civilzations"? and All That

1. Samuel Huntington

2. Antony Sullivan: The Journal of the Historical Society

3. Alan Kors

Section 2: Ibn Khaldun and the Muqaddimah: A Theory of History and the Political Economy of Prosperity

5. Ibn Khaldun

Section 3: Alexis de Tocqueville and Democracy in America: The Lineaments of Republican Liberty

6. Alexis de Toqueville

Political Economy: Dr. Kurt Rotthoff

Economics Readings Are Found on this Link

Conflict Management: Dr. Tristan Mabry

1. Course Syllabus

2. Aug. 3rd -First Session - J.Z. Muller

3. August 3rd- Second Session- Walker Connor

4. August 4th- First Session- Walker Connor

5. August 4th- First Session- B. O'Leary

6. August 4th-Second Session- G. Nodia

7. August 4th- Second Session- TJ Mabry

8. August 5th- First Session-Preece Jackson

9. August 5th-First Session- B. O'Leary

10. August 6th- First Session-S. Wolff

11. August 6th-Second Session- M.H. Ross