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Slavery Is Alive and Well Today… but Not in the Way Many Expect 0
- Politics
- April 15, 2019
What exactly is a slave? My online dictionary describes it as “a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.” That one doesn’t satisfy. Though some might debate the definition of “legal property,” this definition would make the mother of a three-year-old a slave owner. My
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Notre Dame Burns. As Does Our Civilization?0
- Culture
- April 15, 2019
Nine-hundred years of heritage and beauty were left in smoldering ashes today after a fire consumed the once-great Cathedral of Notre Dame. Back in college, and before I converted to Catholicism, I had the great fortune of visiting the Cathedral. Unfortunately, I didn’t appreciate it nearly enough. As a typical college kid, I went
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Income Is Determined by the Scarcity of Your Contribution, Not the Value of Human Worth 0
- Economics
- April 12, 2019
In a few months’ time, my wife and I will send our second child to daycare. Like all parents, nothing is more precious to us than our children. So it’s surprising that the people whom parents trust to take care of their kids—childcare workers and preschool teachers—get paid median salaries of just $22,290 and $28,990
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What Happened to Manners and What to Do About It 1
- Culture
- April 12, 2019
There was that guy in high school who went on an overseas trip. He came back and regaled everyone with the glorious things over there that are so much better than they are here. We all hated that guy. I’m that guy today. Life in Seoul I just returned from my first visit to Seoul,
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Electricity Access Is Spreading (Except in Venezuela)0
- Politics
- April 12, 2019
Venezuela has recently experienced a wave of blackouts resulting from the ineptitude of Maduro’s dictatorship, whose policies have led the country to the most severe economic crisis of its history. The lack of access to electricity is having an unprecedented humanitarian impact on the Venezuelan population. Food is spoiling in unpowered refrigerators, looters are running
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Are We In Fact Melding With Machines?0
- Culture
- April 12, 2019
Here’s a headline worth pondering: “Chinese parents want students to wear dystopian brainwave-detecting headbands.” The story, on the website SupChina, details the latest innovation at the Jiangnan Experimental School in Hangzhou. Interestingly enough, the electronic headband, dubbed Focus EDU, is made by a Harvard-incubated American startup, BrainCo, based in Somerville, Massachusetts—right next to Cambridge. As the company’s chatty video explains, in a traditional
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