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You Can’t Leave the U.S. Unless the IRS Lets You Now 0
- Economics
- July 25, 2018
When it comes to human migration, nearly everything we hear nowadays in relation to the United States and Europe is related to immigration into North America and Europe. Historically, however, governments have often been as concerned with emigration as they have been with immigration. This is not surprising since government have always attempted to “monopolize
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The Top 10 Presidential Vetoes in American History 0
- Politics
- July 24, 2018
President James Garfield named his beloved dog Veto. The pooch was a monstrous but lovable black Newfoundland weighing more than a hundred pounds. Congress got the message: A bad or unconstitutional bill would go straight to the Garfield doghouse. (Sadly, none ever did because Garfield served only five months in office.) The veto itself is a
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George Orwell Knew We’d Buy the Screens That Are Used Against Us 0
- Culture
- July 24, 2018
Sales of George Orwell’s utopian novel 1984 (1949) have spiked twice recently, both times in response to political events. In early 2017, the idea of ‘alternative facts’ called to mind Winston Smith, the book’s protagonist and, as a clerk in the Ministry of Truth, a professional alternator of facts. And in 2013, the US National
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$3 Million Government Study Finds Link Between Excessive Drinking and Aggressive Nightclub Behavior 0
- Culture
- July 24, 2018
Perhaps unaware of centuries of evidence that suggests some kind of connection between excessive alcohol consumption and aggressive behavior on the part of revelers, including its own, the U.S. government launched a series of studies to learn more in 2014. Since then, the cumulative tab for the ongoing studies into the behavior of alcohol-consuming nightclub
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Leonard Bernstein’s Search for Faith 0
- Culture
- July 24, 2018
”I’m no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.” Thus did Leonard Bernstein famously conclude his Norton Lectures on the nature of music at Harvard University, 1973. This year we commemorate the 100th anniversary of Bernstein’s birth Aug. 25, a good time to unpack his statement.
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Does Political Correctness Erase Cultural Substance?0
- July 24, 2018
Does it ever seem to you that a politically correct student can do no wrong? That question crossed my mind when I read about a recent incident at the University of Manchester. According to The Guardian, the University of Manchester recently refurbished its students’ union. Part of the décor involved a mural of the poem
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You Can’t Leave the U.S. Unless the IRS Lets You Now 0