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  • The Shakespeare Forger Who Duped England

    The Shakespeare Forger Who Duped England0

    William Henry Ireland was born in London in 1777 (or 1775, records vary), the son of a British author and engraver. Ireland came of age during what can be called a Shakespeare craze. Though he was considered a poor student—one teacher deemed him so stupid that he told Ireland’s father, Samuel, not to bother bringing

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  • The Sexual Revolution’s Unwanted Progeny

    The Sexual Revolution’s Unwanted Progeny0

    A few months ago, I wrote about the sexual revolution that needs to happen, but won’t. Partly because the more powerful can, and often do, elicit grudging “consent” from the less powerful, seeing mutual consent as the sole moral criterion for sexual interactions is problematic. That’s one of the sexual revolution’s unwanted progeny. We need

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  • The Sexual Revolution That Needs to Happen, But Won’t

    The Sexual Revolution That Needs to Happen, But Won’t0

    Adults of a certain age know that something called “the sexual revolution” happened in the 1960s, soon after the anovulant birth-control pill was invented and marketed. As liberal religion writer Elizabeth Bruenig puts it in an interesting new article about the #MeToo movement: “The sexual revolution made a vast number of previously unavailable sexual choices

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  • The Seven Worst Ideas for Regulation This Century

    The Seven Worst Ideas for Regulation This Century0

    Many good things have happened both in the United States and worldwide this century. In the U.S., we have the lowest unemployment rate in half a century. Worldwide prosperity is growing so fast that the rate of extreme poverty fell by half between 1990 and 2015, five years ahead of the World Bank’s optimistic goal.

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  • The Seven Most Anti-War Episodes of M*A*S*H

    The Seven Most Anti-War Episodes of M*A*S*H0

    M*A*S*H is the classic sit-com telling the story of a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in the Korean War. Despite the wartime setting, or perhaps because of it, this comedy contains some of the most profoundly anti-war sentiments in television history. 1. Goodbye, Farewell and Amen Hawkeye is held in a psychiatric ward with suppressed memories

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  • The Seven Deadly Sins of Networking

    The Seven Deadly Sins of Networking0

    This is based on a section of Zak’s new book How to Get Ahead, due out in summer 2019. Networking is a fundamental part of getting ahead. You can have the best skills, the best knowledge, and the best portfolio, but if you can’t get in front of the people who can use your skills, knowledge,

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