Culture

How a Scottish Self-Help Book Made Toyota Great 1
- Culture
- February 27, 2020
Toyota is the best-selling car brand in the world, and the Toyota Corolla is the best-selling model in the world. This is the improbable story of how a 19th century book by a Scottish author fueled Toyota’s global dominance in the car industry. The Toyota story belies the deceptive message of Bernie Sanders and other politicians like him who proclaim
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Beyond the Contentment of Walden Pond 0
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- February 27, 2020
Henry David Thoreau maintained a very simple lifestyle in his 10-by-15-foot cabin near Walden Pond. His furniture consisted of three chairs, a desk, and a table, while the rest of his possessions included a limited range of cooking implements. Thoreau also valued simple tools, as well as lamplight, stationery, and a few books as necessities
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The Inability to Speak English Shouldn’t Qualify as ‘Disability’ for Social Security 0
- Culture
- February 27, 2020
The Social Security Disability Insurance system was established as a social safety net program for workers who lose the physical or mental ability to work at a sustainable gainful activity level. It has become so much more than that. But a new rule from the Social Security Administration will improve the integrity and purpose of the Disability Insurance system. The
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They Call Me Echo Boomer 0
- Culture
- February 26, 2020
There’s a rather useless effort to categorize people into generations these days. True, it is interesting how many different terms there can be for each generation. Generation X, for example, is the “latchkey generation.” Generation Z is an “iGen” compromised of “Zoomers.” Then there’s my new favorite: “echo boomers.” If you guessed that this term
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With Bernie, Trump May Regret What He Started 0
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- February 26, 2020
An ancient Hebrew rabbinical text, sometimes called The Apocalypse of Abraham, tells the story of Abraham’s father, Terah, who manufactured statuette idols, considered gods by the local population. A young Abraham noticed that the head of one of these idols had fallen off during transport. He had a revelation: these were false gods made by humans;
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Vote: The Scariest Word in Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’0
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- February 26, 2020
To the first-time reader, George Orwell’s 1945 fable Animal Farm might appear to be the story of a grand experiment that began as a veritable utopia before its betrayal by an authoritarian hijacker. That’s certainly how many leftists, including one of my former professors, view the Russian Revolution on which Orwell’s animal revolution is based.
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