Culture

Homer’s Advice for Husbands and Wives 0
- Culture
- January 14, 2019
Author’s Introduction: Imagine if Homer, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, and the other great poets of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages had been given the gift, not only to peer into the twenty-first century, but to correspond with we who live in that most confusing and rudderless of centuries. Had it been in their power
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Meat-eating Made Homo Sapiens Brainy and Brawny 0
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- January 14, 2019
While it may well be that veganism is “no longer relegated to the fringes of society where for so long it was mocked for being ‘weird’ or ‘extreme’,” it still seems a stretch to say, as a Forbes article did a year ago, that “veganism is going mainstream” and “vegan living is starting to become the norm.”
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How America Let the Culture of Disrespect Get Out of Hand 0
- Culture
- January 11, 2019
By now, you have likely seen the California McDonald’s fight that is making its way around the internet. As Yahoo explains, the fight began when a young mother asked several teens to leave the McDonald’s play area where her two young children were playing. The teens did not take kindly to this request, challenging the mother
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The Immigrants Challenging Europe’s Code of Silence on Islam 0
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- January 11, 2019
Over the holidays, two developments in Europe’s immigration and multiculturalism battle stood out particularly. First to France, where there occurred what might be dubbed the Zineb El Rhazoui affair. El Rhazoui, 36, is a French-Moroccan journalist and a former reporter for Charlie Hebdo. Born in Casablanca, she came to Paris for college. She’s engaged in both France and Morocco
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Mistakes People Make When They Are Fired 0
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- January 11, 2019
The labor contract in a market economy should be based on mutual benefit. The freedom to quit and the freedom to fire are the mechanisms that keep that exchange relationship working. Getting fired is not always a tragedy. Ideally, we live and learn and move on. Moreover, it’s not always about incompetence. I’ve never known a productive,
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The Ironies of Illegal Immigration 0
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- January 10, 2019
Estimates suggest that there are 11 million to 13 million Mexican citizens currently living in the United States illegally. Millions more emigrated previously and are now U.S. citizens. A recent poll revealed that one-third of Mexicans (34 percent) would like to emigrate to the United States. With Mexico having a population of about 130 million,
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