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  • What CNN Gets Wrong in Its Coverage of Seattle’s New Minimum Wage Law

    What CNN Gets Wrong in Its Coverage of Seattle’s New Minimum Wage Law0

    • November 8, 2018

    Economic theory has a few things to say about what will happen to the quantity demanded of something if you raise its price. But activists—and a few economists—have argued that, for various reasons, when the quantity you’re talking about is the quantity of labor, it isn’t as simple as that. In this context, the experience

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  • What Classical Education Tells Us About Sex Education

    What Classical Education Tells Us About Sex Education0

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  • What Cicero Would Say about Roger Stone

    What Cicero Would Say about Roger Stone0

    In his speech before the Roman Senate, when he accused Catiline of conspiracy to overthrow the state, Cicero famously proclaimed, “O ye immortal gods, where on earth are we? In what city are we living? What constitution is ours?”   A former Latin teacher, I thought of those words when I read the news online

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  • What Children’s Toys Tell Us About Our ‘Brave New World’

    What Children’s Toys Tell Us About Our ‘Brave New World’0

    Why do children today have so many toys? Like most parents, I’m working hard to keep my kids entertained indoors during quarantine. A new report shows online sales of toys and games have increased by 182 percent due to the coronavirus. Here’s the problem: my children already have too much stuff. I can’t possibly buy them anything

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  • What Children Lose By Not Gardening

    What Children Lose By Not Gardening0

    One summer while I was in middle school, my grandfather brought my family a number of potato sets to plant in our garden. As we had more than we needed, I passed off a handful to my friend who lived across the street. Despite lacking a green thumb, she eagerly planted them in a corner

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  • What Charles Dickens Understood About Self-Pity

    What Charles Dickens Understood About Self-Pity0

    Over the last few weeks I have been making my way through Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. In reading it, I have once again been struck by Dickens’ remarkable ability to weave multiple, insignificant storylines into a cohesive tale. It is this talent which perhaps explains why a main theme of the novel did not hit

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