Putting Profits Ahead of Patients

8/30/17. Jerome Groopman, MD looks at health care delivery and finds much to criticize.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/07/13/putting-profits-ahead-of-patients/

How Colleges are Strangling Liberalism

8/22/17. The Downsides of Identity Politics.

http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Colleges-Are-Strangling/240909?key=_ds5xEy29SM9Wq4Ek8CmAQtrc-CeIrKfiAiM9xrC72owFjxGcKz7IMnqil4QSloiYk84ZDk1Tm12cVVDUE5LTU91RFhNNW1JeVh0VVhUdllEVlBtMG9zemI5MA

Are We All Racists Deep Inside?

8/14/17. Psychologist Michael Shermer weighs in.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-we-all-racists-deep-inside/

Margararet Mead in Pursuit of Fame and Sex

8/14/17. Coming of age in America.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/margaret-mead-in-pursuit-of-fame-and-sex/2017/08/11/e1cd45a4-6590-11e7-9928-22d00a47778f_story.html?utm_term=.4d80527fe158

Naked Ladies and Weird Invisable Men

8/12/17. Life after Hugh Hefner.

http://lithub.com/naked-ladies-and-weird-invisible-men/

Milton Friedman on Collectivism vs the Free Market

8/12/17. The arguments for the free market are subtle and hard for people to understand.

 

“The argument for collectivism, for government doing something, is simple. Anybody can understand it. 'If there's something wrong, pass a law. If somebody is in trouble, get Mr. X to help them out.' The argument for voluntary cooperation, for a free market, is not nearly so simple. It says, 'You know, if you allow people to cooperate voluntarily and don't interfere with them, indirectly, through the operation of the market, they will improve matters more than you can improve it directly by appointing somebody.' That's a subtle argument, and it's hard for people to understand. Moreover, people think that when you argue that way you're arguing for selfishness, for greed. That's utter nonsense.”

— Milton Friedman

Thomas Sowell on Helping Others

8/12/17. Truth.

 

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

— Thomas Sowell

Anne Lamott On Loss

8/12/17.

 

 

“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”

— Anne Lamott 

Google and Diversity

8/11/17. Science weighs in.

http://quillette.com/2017/08/05/best-web-6th-august-2017/

Vocational Education in Americas High Schools

8/9/17. Many good jobs available ---- voc ed training is IMPORTANT.

https://www.city-journal.org/html/vocational-education-and-americas-high-schools-15389.html