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Trucker Safety and You

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On August 18, 2015
One of the points I make in Out of Sight is that the impact of industrial production is shouldered almost entirely by workers because when consumers get exposed to pesticides, for example, they are angry and empowered to demand changes. This is one reason why...
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Freedom!

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On August 18, 2015
"Sure, you can't drive, vote, or walk around unaccompanied.  But at least you're not in Venezuela!  Savor your economic freedom!' For whatever reason, I'm always fascinated by libertarian "Freedom Indexes." Does CATO's international comparison consider equal inheritance rights but not the ability of a woman...

On jargon and humanities scholarship

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On August 17, 2015
Murc, in the Foner thread: Every important, highly technical endeavor has highly technical jargon that’s pretty impenetrable from the outside, but I’ve noticed for some reason only the humanities seem to get flak for it. Nobody gets pissed off when MD’s or engineers or physicists...
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The full National Labor Relations Board rejected the initial ruling that Northwestern football players could unionize. They used some strange logic to do so, effectively using a competitive balance argument that since the ruling could only cover private schools, it might give those schools a...
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