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#MeTourism: The Hidden Costs of Selfie Tourism 2
- Culture
- January 2, 2018
Technology has changed the way we travel. Smartphones, travellers’ comments and photos, search engines and algorithms can all inspire and empower us to plan complex journeys all over the globe within minutes. Planning and booking tourism has always had an element of risk. One has to commit upfront – there is no sample to try
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Our Narcissistic Age Could Use Some ‘Casablanca’ Values 0
- Culture
- January 2, 2018
Casablanca never could have been made today. The classic movie, which turned seventy-five this year, features themes that would never fly in today’s world: that personal happiness is not the most important goal; that feelings ought to be ignored at times; and that romantic love isn’t always worth pursuing. Talk about retro values. In case
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Appeals Court Rules Bakers Must Pay $135,000 for Not Making Wedding Cake 0
- Politics
- January 2, 2018
A husband-and-wife baking team must pay a $135,000 fine for declining to make a cake for the wedding of two women, Oregon’s second-highest court has ruled. A three-judge panel of the Oregon Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld a decision by a state agency that led to the fine and forced Aaron and Melissa Klein
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Knowing Their Harm, Politicians Still Push for Minimum Wages 0
- Economics
- December 29, 2017
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Should Parents Allow Kids to Fight?0
- Culture
- December 29, 2017
While dining with friends the other evening, the sibling squabbles we had as children came up as a topic of conversation. Laughingly, one friend recounted how her father, tired of hearing the bickering between herself and another sibling, calmly suggested they go outside, get some boxing gloves, and settle the argument that way. “But she
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‘The Last Jedi’ is Awful and Disney is Ruining Star Wars 0
- Culture
- December 29, 2017
In 1964, shortly after the release of Disney’s adaptation of P. L. Travers’ charming 1934 book Mary Poppins, J.R.R. Tolkien sent a letter to one Miss J.L. Curry of Stanford University. In the letter, Tolkien complained about the corrupting influence Walt Disney’s movies had on literary works. “Though in most of the ‘pictures’ proceeding from his
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