I have a short essay to do, its only three questions. I will post the questions down below, and I will provide you with the power points that you have to read in order to answer the questions.

This is a multi-part essay assignment. You can answer each section separately or combine the questions into a single essay format.

1. Examine the "Science of Politics" Power Point (in your Week 1: Ch 1: Introducing the Ancient Debate Canvas Module), on the three main sources of "truth" (authority, personal reflection, or science). While I make the case that science has clear advantages (the scientific method, falsifiability, etc.), why does authority as a source of truth continue to have such a powerful impact on the contemporary political world? Why is this the case? Relate this to Lakoff's "Don't Underestimate Trump" from Chapter 6 of your "American Government Examined: Reader" Give a contemporary example. Is it justifiable for politicians to lie or mislead constituents because the politicians are confident in the overall “truth” of their agendas?

2. Drawing on Chapter One of your Novel Approach to Politics, the corresponding power point lecture outline (in your Theories and Ideologies Canvas Module), and lecture or video lecture clips, compare and contrast three different ideologies. Explain how are they similar and different. Which do you find most compelling? Why?

3. Compare and Contrast the following three opinion pieces. To various degrees, each of these pieces address how ideologies have evolved over the last decade in the United States. What do these evolutions have a common? How are they different? How do these articles fit into the spectrum of ideologies presented in Chapter One of your Novel Approach to Politics?

– Lanchester, "After the Fall" from the 7/5/2018 London Review of Books. https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n13/john-lanchester/after-the-fall (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (If you have trouble accessing this article through the London Review of Books website, I have a copy of the article in your Theories and Ideologies Readings Canvas Module).

– Brooks, "Donald Trump's Allure: Ego as Ideology" from the 8/4/15 New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/opinion/david-brooks-trumps-allure-ego-as-ideology.html?_r=0 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Note that this was written before the 2016 election and the author, David Brooks, mistakenly assumes Trump was not going to win the election).

– Robin, "The New Socialists" from the 8/26/18 New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/opinion/sunday/what-socialism-looks-like-in-2018.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.