Culture

The Gender Pay Gap is Real … but it Has Little to Do With Gender Discrimination 0
- Culture
- March 16, 2018
On occasion of International Women’s Day, millions of people marched on the streets of dozens of cities around the world to vindicate women’s rights and denounce gender-based violence and discrimination in all its forms. In Spain, demonstrations were accompanied by a general strike that, according to labor unions, was followed by 5.3 million women. One
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10 Things to Know About the Real St. Patrick 0
- Culture
- March 16, 2018
On March 17, people around the world will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by parading in green hats, sporting images of shamrocks and leprechauns – tiny, grinning, fairy men – pinned to their lapels. Patrick’s picture will adorn greeting cards: an aged, bearded bishop in flowing robes, grasping a bishop’s staff and glaring at a coil
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4 Bits of Advice from Ben Franklin on How to Be a ‘Rational Being’0
- Culture
- March 16, 2018
Have you ever noticed that there seem to be fewer calm and level-headed people these days? Almost everyone seems to operate through a lens of emotion and feeling rather than plain ol’ common sense. This is perhaps no surprise as schools and society have encouraged a feelings-oriented approach to life through the advancement of positive
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Hannah Arendt on How Loneliness Breeds Terror 1
- Culture
- March 15, 2018
Thinkers as early as Aristotle observed that man is, by nature, a social creature. For this reason, there has been a surge of media attention on the “loneliness plague” which the Information Age has wrought. Most media attention has focused on the health consequences of loneliness, which stand to overwhelm government health systems in the
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Motherhood: What Women Really Want (and Many Aren’t Getting)0
- Culture
- March 15, 2018
I recently ran across an ABC News article by Jessica Mendoza, a mother of two. As an analyst for ESPN, Mendoza has a pretty high-profile, demanding job to balance with her role as a mother. Yet in spite of these demands, Mendoza decided to add something else to her plate a few years ago: homeschooling.
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Thomas Sowell: Social Justice Philosophy Is a Blank Check for Government Power 0
- Culture
- March 15, 2018
“In politics, the great non-sequitur of our time is that 1) things are not right and that 2) the government should make them right. Where right all too often means cosmic justice, trying to set things right means writing a blank check for a never-ending expansion of government power.” This key passage from Thomas Sowell’s
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