Slavery: America's Fatal Compromise    by Joan Kennedy Taylor
Price: $4.95 USD. 5610 words. Published by Worthy Shorts on December 9, 2010. .
This essay answers the following question- how could the United States, a country based consciously on philosopher John Locke's idea of the "rights of man," come into existence incorporating the institution of slavery? But it does more than this; it ties this "fatal compromise" to its fatal consequences: a gradual erosion of rights that has occurred across all of our country’s history.

The Social Mortgage of Intellectual Property    by David Carey
Price: $2.99 USD. 18310 words. Published by acton on May 19, 2012. .
The AIDs crisis in Africa has given the once-esoteric question of intellectual property rights critical and immediate significance. The issue of pharmaceutical patents is but one dimension of a broad and complicated area at the intersection of law, economics, and ethics.

Mind Puppet    by Steve Gillman
Price: $2.99 USD. 22990 words. Published on May 30, 2012. .
You are manipulated by your own mind, the author of Mind Puppet says. In the other nine essays he suggests we disrespect the flag, get rid of retirement, put a dollar value on human life, and stop prosecuting corporate crime, among other ideas.