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Author: Mark Lugas

Mark Lugas (FCRH ‘22) is a political science and history double major. He is from Weymouth, Massachusetts and has worked in both the Massachusetts State House and the New York State Assembly. He is passionate about constitutional rights, laissez-faire economics, and American values. Contact Mark at mlugas@fordham.edu

Modern Serfdom, An American Crisis: Part I

April 5, 2021April 5, 2021 Mark Lugas

I waited to write this article for a couple of weeks to see if any of the armchair activists on Instagram would share any stories or pictures of the humanitarian crisis on the southern border. […]

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False Friends Facilitate Our Fall: Saudi Arabia: Lost in the Sands of Time

March 23, 2021March 23, 2021 Mark Lugas

The 120° heat pounds down on you as sweat trickles down your forehead. You hear the muezzin’s calls echo through the fabulously modern city streets. Despite these 21st Century comforts around you, you cannot help […]

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The Nuclear Option

March 11, 2021March 11, 2021 Mark Lugas

Everyone is concerned about the climate. Everywhere you go, there are climate predictions ranging from sensible to completely insane 2012-esque apocalypse stories where we only have (insert ever-changing number of years) left until we are […]

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H.R.127 and the Idiocracy in Government

February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 Mark Lugas

H.R.127 is a bill brought forward by Representative Sheila Jackson Lee from Texas’ 18th District. It is a sweeping gun control bill that covers topics that the Representative clearly knows nothing about. She was asked […]

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False Friends Facilitate Our Fall: China, The Paper Dragon

January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 Mark Lugas

You open your eyes. Car horns are blaring all around you. Though night, your vision is not impaired, as the glowing lights of marquees and logos light up the city around you. The smell of […]

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The Most Beautifully American Things

October 25, 2020November 8, 2020 Mark Lugas

Dedicated to My Dear Friend Luba Al-Kazwini, Who Just Recently Became an American Citizen   Let’s not kid ourselves, 2020 has been a rough year, filled with sadness, division, and hatred. Whether you’re on the […]

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Dead Money: The National Coin Shortage and the Hand It Deals

October 9, 2020November 8, 2020 Mark Lugas

If you have been out to a retail store lately, then surely you have seen signs warning of a national coin shortage, asking that you pay in exact change if you are paying in cash. […]

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It’s Time to Stop Normalizing Pedophilia

September 27, 2020November 9, 2020 Mark Lugas

The very first article I wrote for the Fordham Political Review was about Jeffrey Epstein and his pedophile island, which, lest I remind you, was a real thing. The story of this mysterious billionaire pedophile, […]

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