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  • What the 15-Hour Work Week Prophets Failed to Account for

    What the 15-Hour Work Week Prophets Failed to Account for0

    There is a utopian vision shared by hard workers everywhere: One day we will look back on all our accomplishments and say “at last, the age of respite and luxury has finally arrived!” But as the forecasted luxury manifests all around us, the respite is nowhere in sight. John Maynard Keynes, one of history’s most

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  • What the ‘Jesus Never Existed’ Folks Often Overlook

    What the ‘Jesus Never Existed’ Folks Often Overlook0

    Every Christmas, we get a spate of articles from major newspapers and magazines with titles such as “Who was the real Jesus?” or “Who was the Historical Jesus,” or, “The Virgin Birth of Jesus: Fact or Fable?” Surely they have run out of novel titles by now. This year’s entry was from the Washington Post:

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  • What Terrorists and Minneapolis Street Gangs Have in Common

    What Terrorists and Minneapolis Street Gangs Have in Common0

    The 2019 movie Hotel Mumbai tells the gripping tale of the Islamic terror attacks in Mumbai during November 2008. The ten youthful terrorists were from the Pakistani group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba. They murdered 164 people. The alleged mastermind, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, was never tried. In the movie, he is known as Brother Bull, a disembodied voice heard over cell phones giving instructions

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  • What Teddy Roosevelt Might Have Said About Those Starbucks Cups

    What Teddy Roosevelt Might Have Said About Those Starbucks Cups0

    I’ve ignored most of the controversy over Starbucks dropping holiday-themed designs on its cups because, well, it’s stupid, and probably media-fabricated. It’s not that I don’t lament the decline of communally celebrated feasts; it’s just that I wasn’t really depending on a Seattle-based coffee company to revive the sanctity of Christmas… with cups decorated with

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  • What Teaching in China Taught Me About Religious Freedom

    What Teaching in China Taught Me About Religious Freedom0

    The meaning of religious freedom came home to me, fittingly enough, by the dawn’s early light, slanting through a dormitory window in China many years ago. I was one of 10 young people spending a summer teaching English as a Second Language classes at an agricultural college 3,000 miles west of Beijing, in what’s known

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  • What Teachers Make in 10 Cities Across America

    What Teachers Make in 10 Cities Across America0

    • September 8, 2015

    1. Los Angeles Unified School District: $75,504 2. Pittsburgh Unified School District: $73,483 3. Chicago Public Schools: $71,739 4. The School District of Philadelphia: $70,790 5. St. Paul (MN) Public Schools: $70,166 6. San Francisco Unified School District: $69,135 7. Newark Public Schools: $68,000 8. Portland (OR) Public Schools: $58,210 9. Fort Worth (TX) Independent

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