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Unboxing Amazon’s New $15 per Hour Minimum Wage 0
- Economics
- October 3, 2018
Many people assume that to raise wages, big companies must be dragged along by government policy. Amazon’s eye-opening announcement yesterday suggests otherwise. The online retail giant announced it would raise its company minimum wage to fifteen dollars per hour, and lobby for an increase in the federal minimum wage. This new policy is not merely cosmetic. Amazon’s
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Should the Stupidity of Youth Be Used Against Us?0
- Culture
- October 3, 2018
All human beings of sound mind are walking, breathing time machines. With a flip of the switch—and often, under a stimulus like Proust’s madeleine biscuit, that switch sometimes flips itself—we can soar via our memories across the decades, sitting again in that fourth grade classroom behind a boy nicknamed Spike, dancing with Debbie at our
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The One Question You Can Ask to Uncover a President’s Economic Principles 0
- Economics
- October 3, 2018
Anonymous, a senior administration official writing in The New York Times, wants us to know President Trump “is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.” Presumably, Anonymous believes other recent presidents operated by principles, and we can wonder who Anonymous thinks those presidents were and what principles he believes guided them. A
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Obama’s Anti-Discipline Policies Set Our Students Up for Failure 0
- Culture
- October 3, 2018
President Barack Obama’s first education secretary, Arne Duncan, gave a speech on the 45th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where, in 1965, state troopers beat and tear-gassed hundreds of peaceful civil rights marchers who were demanding voting rights. Later that year, as a result of widespread support across
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Why Are Feminists Secretly Attracted to Chivalrous Men?0
- Culture
- October 3, 2018
I recently ran across an article from The Conversation discussing the issue of “benevolent sexism.” For those feeling a bit foggy about the term “benevolent sexism,” please know you’re not alone. As I read on, I discovered that I knew the definition, but simply didn’t recognize it under its modern clinical garb. From what I can
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Why Lying in Bed Can Be a Good Thing 0
- October 2, 2018
One of G. K. Chesterton’s most profound essays is simply titled “On Lying in Bed.” It begins in an odd and amusing way: “Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a coloured pencil long enough to draw pictures on the ceiling.” Huh? Lolling about in bed isn’t
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