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Socialist-Themed Vegan Meat Company Learns Marxism Works Better in Theory Than Practice 0
- Economics
- October 6, 2020
With products like Comrade Cluck (a plant meat, not actual chicken), No Evil Foods has had success casting itself as a “revolutionary” food company that embodies progressive values. But the company is learning marketing progressive ideas is easier than implementing socialist-style economics. For months, company leaders have been resisting a unionization effort by workers at
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Why Friendships Are Falling Apart Over Politics 0
- Culture
- October 6, 2020
Former Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia were on opposite sides of the political spectrum. Yet despite their obvious legal disagreements, the liberal Ginsburg once described herself and the conservative Scalia as “best buddies.” This connection across ideological lines may seem surprising today. A striking feature of the current political moment is
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Amy Coney Barrett Exposes Society’s Double Standard on Family Size 0
- Culture
- October 6, 2020
Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to the supreme court, has seven children. Unless you have been living under a rock, you already knew that. All the media coverage of her nomination, which was announced on September 26, devoted extensive attention to this fact. If a poll were to be taken, no doubt more Americans would
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What Is a Nation?0
- Politics
- October 6, 2020
It often happens within societies that certain words and phrases become empty. This loss of meaning tends to happen in two ways. The first is when a society begins to use a word in such a multitude of ways that it becomes empty noise. When a word becomes used to describe everything, it no longer
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Campus Wokeness and the Evolution of Profanity 0
- Culture
- October 6, 2020
Last month, the University of Southern California removed a business professor from his classroom after he said a Chinese word that is pronounced similarly to the N-word. Warning his students against using filler words during presentations, Professor Greg Patton gave examples such as “um,” “like.” and – in an effort to be inclusive of Chinese students – ne
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Car Seats as Contraceptives 0
- Economics
- October 5, 2020
Seat belts save lives. Child safety seats save lives. These statements seem blindingly obvious. But everything has a cost. Two American economists recently studied the social effects of mandating child safety seats from 1973. They concluded, counterintuitively, that the conventional wisdom is both right and wrong. They estimate that these popular laws prevented only 57
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