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  • How the Communist Party Complicates Research in China

    How the Communist Party Complicates Research in China0

    What is the coronavirus? How does it spread? Should I be worried? When a new virus surfaces, the unknowns loom big. When a new virus comes out of China, potentially clarifying information needs to be weighed and considered alongside the realities of practicing science and research there. I am a social scientist, specializing in psychological

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  • How the Clock Changed the World

    How the Clock Changed the World2

    When people reflect on how technology has changed our lives, they usually think about the car, the television, or the computer. But according to historian and philosopher Lewis Mumford, it’s really the invention of the mechanical clock that changed everything. In his 1934 classic Technics and Civilization, Mumford laid out a fascinating argument why “the

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  • How the Church of Climate Change Resembles a (Deadly) Cult

    How the Church of Climate Change Resembles a (Deadly) Cult0

    Climate change can kill. Not just furnace-like summer heat with its killer bushfires, not killer floods sweeping away livestock, houses and motorists, not killer cyclones lifting roofs, toppling trees, and smashing power lines. But also felo de se, self-slaughter, shuffling off this mortal coil. Remember 104-year-old David Goodall, the Australian academic who travelled to Switzerland

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  • How the Chinese Are Erasing the Tiananmen Square Massacre From History

    How the Chinese Are Erasing the Tiananmen Square Massacre From History0

    One free man will say with truth what he thinks and feels amongst thousands of men who by their acts and words attest exactly the opposite. It would seem that he who sincerely expressed his thought must remain alone, whereas it generally happens that every one else, or the majority at least, have been thinking

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  • How the Bible Won a WWI Battle

    How the Bible Won a WWI Battle0

    Several weeks ago, I made the claim that a culturally literate person knows the Bible. Because the Bible was a part of common culture for so many centuries, those who fail to familiarize themselves with its contents cut themselves off from deeper historical and cultural understanding.  I was reminded today just how valuable that knowledge

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  • How the $15 Minimum Wage is Pushing New York’s Car Washers to the Margins

    How the $15 Minimum Wage is Pushing New York’s Car Washers to the Margins0

    As protests for a $15-per-hour minimum wage continue to rage across the country, cities like Seattle and Minneapolis and states like California and New York have begun to adopt such schemes, leading to a range of unfortunate case studies in economic destruction. Despite the popular narrative that such laws will benefit the most vulnerable and put the powerful in check, the negative consequences have tended to

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