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  • There’s a Good Reason Many Women Make Less Than Men

    There’s a Good Reason Many Women Make Less Than Men0

    Whenever it is reported that women make less money than men, it is automatically assumed that this must be the result of discrimination. What is seldom mentioned is the factors that go into these statistics. Are they talking about women who work the same hours as men? Who have the same level of seniority? Do

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  • Why the Enlightenment Thinkers Understood the Need for Religion

    Why the Enlightenment Thinkers Understood the Need for Religion1

    In January I resolved to read Will and Ariel Durant’s magnum opus The Story Of Civilization before the end of the year. It is now early November, and I have finished Volume X of this series, Rousseau and Revolution, meaning I should fulfill my self-imposed obligation under deadline. The Durants devoted the last three of

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  • Hayek: Social Justice Demands the Unequal Treatment of Individuals

    Hayek: Social Justice Demands the Unequal Treatment of Individuals0

    Social justice is one of those squishy terms that is not easy to define. One thing we know for certain: social justice is not the same thing as justice, an age-old idea that was the focus of such thinkers as Aristotle, Plato, Augustine of Hippo, Aquinas, and Hume. (After all, if social justice meant the

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  • The Best Way to Fight Political Hysteria

    The Best Way to Fight Political Hysteria0

    The week after Halloween, my first-grade grandson asked if I was afraid of monsters. “Only human ones,” I said. The confusion on his face alerted me to shift gears. “No, I’m not afraid of monsters. The older you get, the less you are afraid of monsters.” He paused, then asked: “Are you afraid of tomatoes?”

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  • Are Males Being Discriminated Against on College Campuses?

    Are Males Being Discriminated Against on College Campuses?0

    A good case can be made that males are discriminated against on college campuses, and the discrimination has grown over time. Men are vastly outnumbered in America’s universities—in the fall of 2016, there were 2,667,000 more women studying than men. Not only are they significantly outnumbered, men are often disproportionately harshly treated in campus disciplinary

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  • More Markets and Less Politics

    More Markets and Less Politics0

    Facebook is an excellent way to waste time. But it sometimes becomes a source of inspiration. Last week, I came across a post by economist Steve Horwitz in which he commented on a WSJ article about Israeli tech companies hiring Palestinian engineers due to a lack of qualified workers in the sector. In it, Horwitz

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