Politics Dictating Consumer Choice

March 08, 2018 by Enquiry Editor in Volume V Issue 16, Eric Fischer

In the era of President Trump, political speech by businesses and business leaders is now under more scrutiny and more controversial. Many businesses and their executives have come under fire for donations to political campaigns, often through industry interest groups, and the criticism has led to frustration among corporate leaders. Companies were condemned from the left when their chief executives took part in Trump’s now-defunct business advisory council, even though they were preaching positions of moderation and stressing business over politics.

The Many Images of Teddy Roosevelt

March 08, 2018 by Enquiry Editor in Volume V Issue 16, Elza Harb

“Speak softly, and carry a big stick.” These are the words most often associated with a bellicose, adventurous, and strong “alpha” man. He was the president who set the stage for hawkish foreign policy, and began the age of American imperialism. For most people, he was a larger-than-life character, almost cartoonish in that sense. This is, of course, President Theodore Roosevelt.

Reflection on Sophocles and Flannery O’Connor

March 08, 2018 by Enquiry Editor in Volume V Issue 16, Claire Anastasia Kitz, Editorial

Sophocles was born just outside of Athens in 496 BC to a well-to-do family and lived to be 90 years old. He wrote more than one hundred plays, of which only seven in complete form have survived: Ajax, Antigone, The Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. He was a contemporary of another great playwright, Euripides, and wrote most of his plays after those of Aeschylus.