This year’s issue was made possible thanks to:
Editorial Board: Jenna Greenhill, Kris Kiltz, and Professors Janina Hornosty and Janice Porteous;
Copy Editors: Diana Pearson, Helena Snopek, and John Geddert;
Journal EditorDavid W. Livingstone;
Assistant Editor: Helena Snopek.


“A Lonely Indian Boy”

“A Lonely Indian Boy”: Censorship and Isolation Surrounding Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

An essay on the issues of censoring youth literature and Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Zoe McKenna.

Ann Radcliffe’s Sublime and Eastern Modes of Transcendence

Ann Radcliffe’s Sublime: How Clarity-of-Mind Equates Eastern Modes of Transcendence in A Sicilian Romance

An essay on Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance and the sublime in Buddhist meditation by Laura-Lee Bowers.

Construction of the Genevan “Woman”

The Construction of the Genevan “Woman” in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality

An essay on Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s presentation of the ideal of “Woman” by Diana Pearson.

Feminist Standpoint Epistemology and Objectivity

Feminist Standpoint Epistemology and Objectivity

An essay on Sandra Harding’s arguments regarding the role of marginalized standpoints in objective sciences by Andrew Freundlich.

How History is Presented in Sebald’s Austerlitz

An Analysis of How History is Presented in W.G. Sebald’s Novel Austerlitz

An essay on the the difficulty of grasping accurate conceptions of history in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz by Tyeson Davies Barton.

Redeemed Through Disobedience

Redeemed Through Disobedience

An essay on the centrality of nonviolence and the significance of violence as a means within the Civil Rights movement by Brandon Kornelson.

Should Statecraft be Soul-Craft?

Plato and Machiavelli: Should Statecraft be Soul-Craft?

An essay on the moral restrictions presented in Machiavelli’s The Prince as compared to Plato’s Republic by Michael Robert Caditz.

Book Review - “In Defense of a Liberal Education”

Book Review – “In Defense of a Liberal Education”

A review of Fareed Zakaria’s In Defense of a Liberal Education by Stacey Harper.