The Many Problems with Marxism - Merion West
WEBApr 15, 2020 · The Many Problems with Marxism. “I recently met up with an old friend, a staunch Marxist, at a traditional Viennese café to catch up and talk about our political differences. After hours of discussion, he admitted, ‘Well, ultimately, it’s a question of faith.'”. T he ultimate test for any theory is whether it works in practice.
Why Are there No Skyscrapers between Midtown and the
WEBMay 11, 2017 · The conventional answer for the gap in the skyline: Geology. According to a Rutgers University paper on the subject, “bedrock is up to 4 to 5 times deeper below the surface” between Grand Central Station and Wall Street. Since bedrock was needed to support tall buildings, there was a preference to build …
The Curious History of Tijuana Bibles - Merion West
WEBFeb 5, 2021 · The Curious History of Tijuana Bibles. “ However, dive a little deeper, and one finds a curious form of expression that—for all of its subversion of the law and public morality—was just as vibrant and popular as the subjects being parodied.”. I n 1967, the underground satirical magazine The Realist published an infamous image at the ...
Interview: Jonathan Haidt on What Underlies Polarization in America
WEB01/30/2019. “In a sense, the Founding Fathers feared democracy because of the tendency of people to be carried away by their passion and easily led astray by demagogues, and I think that our modern polarization, augmented by social media, could well bring their worst fears to reality.”. J onathan Haidt is a social psychologist whose ...
Moral Behavior When No One Is Watching: an Interview with Jillian ...
WEBApr 17, 2020 · Later this year, Jordan will begin work as an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. In this interview, she joins Merion West and Kambiz Tavana to discuss her research, particularly two papers “Signaling When No One Is Watching” and “When Do We Punish People Who Don’t?,” as well as their broader implications.
Virgil’s War and Peace - Merion West
WEBApr 26, 2021 · “The Meeting of Dido and Aeneas” by Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland (1735–1811) “Two millennia later, we are still warring over the meaning of Virgil’s Aeneid.”. A rma virumque cano (Of arms and the man I sing). So opens Virgil’s Aeneid, Rome’s grandiose epic of a Trojan exile fated by the gods to sojourn across the Mediterranean, sow the seeds of Rome’s rivalry with Carthage ...
Scandinavia’s War on Babies with Down Syndrome | Merion West
WEBAug 6, 2017 · As a child with DS costs “1 to 2 million Euros,” Belgian pediatrician Patrick Willems says that, “preventing the birth of 50 babies with Down Syndrome will offset the costs of fully implementing the NIPT [a noninvasive, highly accurate prenatal test for DS] into Dutch public healthcare.”. Dutch pediatrician Ko van Wowue treats ending ...
The Real Truth of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter - Merion West
WEBAug 6, 2019 · The Real Truth of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. Frederick T. Martens. 08/06/2019. Image via NPS.gov. “To DeSimone and his acolytes, two cold-blooded murderers were freed. To our system of justice, two persons, their innocence always in question, were unfairly tried and convicted.”. T here are …
Editor’s Choice: The Best Political Speeches of the Past 55 Years
WEBMar 7, 2019 · (Eric Draper) A few recent political speeches worthy of the history books. T o consider the multitude of possible political speeches, including a number of excellent speeches on the Senate floor, would be too tall an order for a brief list such as this. This list will instead feature speeches given by politicians playing, as former president Barack Obama might phrase it, “at the highest ...
Fact-Checking the Tweet that Got Andy Ngo Banned from Twitter
WEBDec 11, 2019 · In late November of this year, controversial media figure Andy Ngo was suspended from Twitter. As we are all frequently reminded, Twitter is not real life. This is certainly true, and generally I do not find the discussions of events that happen on Twitter to be all that interesting. This, however, is a particular case, because I think it is ...