We find one of these assumptions contained within the definition of the word ‘economics’, which is the ‘study of the allocation of scarce resources’. Along with the assumption of scarcity there is a potentially incompatible assumption applied to growth, which is that it is infinite. The ...
Ms. Bogert goes on about how the word felon had fallen into disuse, and that “the impetus behind the sudden widespread use of the word ‘felon’ is to take Trump down a peg, to label him as no better than a common criminal. And that is the problem.” Years ago, that word (“fel...
In this walk, Richards and Curl also included a number of wine bars (or as they had it, places that were “not a pub in the true sense of the word, but included as a drinking establishment”), which they chose to letter from A to F, rather than number like pubs. All but one of...
My earliest recollection of any type of racism—evidence of an attitude of superiority of one race over another—in my extended family is the use among my many Italian American aunts and uncles of the Italian word for eggplant (moulinyan) to refer to African Americans. As a boy, I could ...
This is a dereliction of duty, even understanding the constraints of word counts (this piece runs some 1,600 words, which is long for the Times) and of what the editors of the Times will permit to be printed. Harris is a menace. If one must vote for a menace for the same reasons ...
-“Self empowerment” (she says) is another word for narcissism. -Feminists have adopted money as a measure of value, and hence applaud women getting into highly paid CEO jobs, despite this doing nothing to change the economic system as a whole. Women with good jobs can now buy their way...
From agreat 772-wordarticleby Ilana Mercer. Posted in Thanks to Laura Leathers on Facebook. Author: Anonymous This Convoy is not just for the truckers’ mandates. It’s for the 30 million people that Trudeau’s government approved to be spied on on their cell phones. ...
so no one complains. So this new HM is merely implementing what she is used to at her former school for “uniformity”, a word regularly used as an excuse for implementing many unpopular things in this country. Perhaps it could also be a subtle and unwritten government policy to be infused...
Apartheid, which literally translates from Afrikaans into "apart" and "hood," was a system of segregation enforced by the ruling white National Party in South Africa from 1948-94. The laws divided communities and, of course, schools, along racial lines. As the '80s dawned, however, outrage ...
In a word: Apple. But it's a little more complicated than that. First it was Best Buy and Amazon, which started stocking the same high-end, cutting-edge products that previously could only be found in stores like Sharper Image. But once Apple becamethe new cool kid on the block for ...