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  • Steve Jobs’s Unveiling of the iPhone Holds a Timeless Economic Lesson

    Steve Jobs’s Unveiling of the iPhone Holds a Timeless Economic Lesson0

    Steve Jobs was a great visionary. But just how far did his vision extend? If you examine the history of the iPhone, it turns out his vision didn’t extend as far as we might think. In his book Digital Minimalism, computer science professor Cal Newport reveals that the original vision Jobs had for the iPhone

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  • Steve Jobs on Why He Hated Pornography

    Steve Jobs on Why He Hated Pornography0

    In 2010 Steve Jobs created a bit of a sensation when he decided to ban from Apple devices any app that was deemed pornographic in nature. “Folks who want porn can buy an android,” Jobs famously wrote to one customer.   So what did Jobs have against porn? Walter Isaacson, in his highly impressive 2011

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  • Steve Jobs Explained How to Fix Education in 1995

    Steve Jobs Explained How to Fix Education in 19950

    Since Donald Trump got into office and appointed school choice supporter Betsy DeVos as the national education secretary, a good deal of ink has been spilled on the issue of school vouchers. On the one hand, vouchers seem to promise a better choice and education for students at a lower cost. On the other hand,

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  • Steve Bannon: Not a Fan of Limited Government

    Steve Bannon: Not a Fan of Limited Government0

    Writing in The New York Times Magazine about last week’s stillborn RyanCare bill, Robert Draper recalls a conversation he had with White House strategist Stephen Bannon earlier this year. Bannon, lamenting the ability of both congressional Democrats and Republicans to get things done, contrasts the identity-obsessed progressives with the one-trick pony conservatives: What’s that Dostoyevsky line: Happy families

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  • Stephen King’s 6 Favorite Stephen King Movies

    Stephen King’s 6 Favorite Stephen King Movies0

    I rarely, if ever, watch horror movies – unless it’s October. Perhaps it has something to do with the season or Halloween lurking around the corner. Whatever the case, during October I enjoy nothing more than devouring spooky movies of all kinds—psychological thrillers, slasher films, campy B movies, etc. This year I rewatched four movies

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  • Stephen Hawking’s Greatest Success

    Stephen Hawking’s Greatest Success0

    Soon after I enrolled as a graduate student at Cambridge University in 1964, I encountered a fellow student, two years ahead of me in his studies, who was unsteady on his feet and spoke with great difficulty. This was Stephen Hawking. He had recently been diagnosed with a degenerative disease, and it was thought that

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