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Crossing the blue-red divide
President Obama and Mitt Romney could probably learn something from these guys. Better yet, Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid. Even John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi — although given their genders (and Furman’s housing rules), that...
Continue ReadingLove among the ruins
Love transcends class definitions. It doesn’t favor public or private schools, and it resides in both the neighborhoods that build walls and those that exist on the other side of those walls. To suggest otherwise...
Continue ReadingReady for what’s next
On May 4, Furman’s 590 graduates from the Class of 2013 received their degrees at commencement. Now, these students are preparing to start the job search, begin graduate school, and explore the world. As they...
Continue ReadingFriendship triumphs over politics
When Furman students Ben Saul and Thomas Hydrick graduated Saturday night, they left behind a greater legacy than student leadership and good grades. Even though Hydrick served as chairman of the College Republicans and Saul...
Continue ReadingSocial change comes to U.S. military
For many years, social behavior in the military has been rigid and unchanged. But this is changing, according to Lieutenant General Dana K. Chipman, the Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army. Chipman’s March 20...
Continue ReadingTocqueville’s world and ours
by Sara Morano ’13, Contributing Writer Embedded in Alexis de Tocqueville’s prolific work, Democracy in America, is a lofty promise. According to Professor James Ceasar, “A new political science for a new age” is what...
Continue ReadingMinistry on the border
by Sara Morano’13, Contributing Writer “We cross borders all the time, sometimes consciously. But often we do it without much thought.” The Rev. Mark Adams, who graduated from Furman in 1993, returned to campus Tuesday...
Continue ReadingTocqueville lecture series continues
This year, the Department of Political Science and the Tocqueville Program embark on a thorough examination of Alexis de Tocqueville’s masterpiece, Democracy in America (1835). With its piercing observations, uncanny predictions, and judicious judgments about all things...
Continue ReadingHigh Noon: Democracy in the Middle East
Since 2010 several Arab nations have successfully overthrown long-lasting dictatorships in the hope that it would lead to democratic forms of governance. But many complications indicate the process might be more agonizing than the initial...
Continue ReadingHigh praise for Tocqueville Program
In a piece for the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, Jane S. Shaw praises Furman’s Tocqueville Program and its efforts to inform students about the relevance of traditional political philosophy. The highly-touted...
Continue Reading40 years of Roe v. Wade
The number of abortions performed in America has been on the decline for a generation. Yet in few states has the trend been more dramatic in recent years than in Kansas, a change driven by...
Continue ReadingPopular columnist, commentator delights audience
by Sara Morano ’13, Contributing Writer “They’ll really never invite me back now.” The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza repeated an ongoing joke during the question and answer session of his hour-long CLP event,...
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