Opinion
Who’s to blame for income inequality?
By
Austin Taliaferro
· Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Prathm Juneja is a freshman from O’Neill, majoring in political science and computer science. He can be reached at pjuneja@nd.edu
Free speech is idealisitic
Thursday, March 31, 2016
I view the concept of free speech as idealistic not only because of the hypocrisy behind its most common supporters, but because it is based on the idea that all forms of speech are inherent to the human condition, and should therefore be defended. This would imply that one’s thoughts and opinions are not the result of any material reality, but simply an abstract process based on the individual's free will. Mental culture is just as much a result of a society's productive process than anything. If we live in a society where racist and sexist thoughts are expressed at all, it is not because those individuals have decided through their own free will to have those prejudices, but because of their place in the greater whole of our stratified society. Society is a self-developing organism; the attitudes and beliefs of its members are not the result of any external inspiration, but a reflection of their material realities.
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