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JULY 26: A MOMENT FOR REFLECTION
(Liberia clocks 176 years today since gaining political independence on July 26, 1847. Yet, despite Liberia’s age, the nation remains one of the poorest in the world, plagued by rampant corruption and bad governance. The following is a short reflection piece I wrote back in 2019, as a call to reawaken our national consciousness. I…
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Freedom and Perfectibility in the Political Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
By Abraham Keita- Student, Yale University What is freedom, or stated more precisely, what does it mean to be free or have free will? Is freedom a natural condition of the individual? Does individual freedom find legitimacy and full expression in political or civil society, or does this society hinder it? In an attempt…
