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The Pitfalls of Ethnic Pay Gaps 0
- Economics
- March 19, 2019
British Prime Minister Theresa May is obsessed with measuring pay gaps between social groups. She championed the requirement for companies with more than 250 workers to measure the so-called “gender pay gap.” Now she wishes companies to measure the “ethnic pay gap.” Yet these measurements, hailed by champions of intersectional theory, produce deceptive statistics that
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Why We Don’t Have Generic Insulin 0
- Economics
- March 18, 2019
“Why is Narcan free to a dope addict but my insulin is $750 a month?” asks an online meme that has since gone viral. “Humalog cost $21 a vial in 1996 and now that same insulin is $375” claims another meme designed to call for price regulations. While these statements do have some truth behind
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Single-Payer Healthcare Topples Nordic Government 0
- Economics
- March 18, 2019
Failure to reform the national health system has led the government to collapse in one of the most statist governments following the Nordic model. Prime Minister Juha Sipilä of Finland and his cabinet members have resigned after failing to rein in the nation’s health care costs and provide greater competition. This comes as reports show private citizens in
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Medieval Wisdom on Healing Personal Discouragement 0
- Philosophy
- March 18, 2019
Who among us has not suffered discouragement, doubt, or sadness? When such feelings arise, we may hope a friend or loved one will help lift our spirit; we are disappointed when they don’t. We may attempt to dull our unhappy feelings through distractions or dysfunctional behavior. Many people when asked can tell you precisely what
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Do Not Pet: The Consequences of Humanizing Animals 0
- Culture
- March 18, 2019
Every so many months it happens again: someone crosses the barrier into a zoo animal’s cage or encounters an animal in the wild, expecting it to be friendly and docile, only to be confronted with the fact that they are called wild animals for a reason. Take the recent instance of an Arizona woman who
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Can Paedophilia Stage a Comeback?0
- Culture
- March 18, 2019
In MercatorNet last week Carolyn Moynihan predicted that paedophilia would make a comeback as a legitimate form of sexual expression, provided that it was loving and consensual. It was, she argued, a natural consequence of the ideology of the Sexual Revolution and that even if it is reviled as the worst of crimes at the
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The Myth of American Meritocracy 0
- Culture
- March 15, 2019
The most destructive and pervasive myth in America today is that we live in a meritocracy. Our elites, so the myth goes, earned their places at Yale and Harvard, on Wall Street and in Washington—not because of the accident of their birth, but because they are better, stronger, and smarter than the rest of us. Therefore, they
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The Most Intolerant County in America (and the Most Tolerant City)0
- Culture
- March 15, 2019
The Atlantic recently asked PredictWise, an analytics firm, to rank US counties based on partisan prejudice (“affective polarization”). The results are now in, and they are fascinating. [Editor’s note: Image shown below] The most intolerant country was not Rabun County in northeastern Georgia, where the film Deliverance was shot. Nor was it in Albany County,
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Questions, But No Answer 0
- Culture
- March 15, 2019
Questions about various events, propositions, and ideas in our culture and politics have me bemused, baffled, and bewildered. As a young woman in Tennessee once said when I asked for directions, “Well, I am just plain bumfuzzled.” Bumfuzzled. That’s it exactly. My inquiries below may strike readers as intended to provoke, but provocation is the
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