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/PRNewswire/ -- The University of Notre Dames Mendoza College of Business today announced plans to create a new online certificate in ethical leadership to...

/PRNewswire/ -- The University of Notre Dames Mendoza College of Business today announced plans to create a new online certificate in ethical leadership to...

(Courtesy of Tikvah Fund) For the 11th consecutive year, the Tikvah Fund will be hosting its prestigious 11-day Tikvah Scholars Program for current 10th and 11th grade students.

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Innovation in a Regulatory Labyrinth “Regulations don’t always work as planned,” says Tom W. Bell, Professor of Chapman University’s Dale E. Fowler School of Law in  They Say It Can’t Be Done, a documentary [1] highlighting four world-changing technologies and how the people working in those fields view the current regulatory environment. Toward the start of the film, Professor Bell says that when people advocate for regulations, “[t]hey don’t necessarily want more regulations....

An Equality Worth Defending In our Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote of self-evident truths “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” and condemned government that was destructive of those ends. Given how important that document was, with its signers putting all of those ends at risk, there had to be a high level of agreement about what “create...

The Result Of The Pies And Divine Light  Share   Share Trending  and the Divine Light It Brings), I discuss how the United States, with its unique structure and practices, builds unprecedented prosperity and liberty. How has this shining Light from America manifested into the world? Due to the spreading of free-market capitalism, with its emanating roots in America, “the share of the world population living in extreme poverty,” writes Dartmouth College economist Douglas Irwin in the Wal...

Others involved are naturalist and TV presenter Chris Packham, Costa Rican climate champion Christiana Figueres, widely credited for achieving the Paris Agreement, Professor of politics David Runciman, human rights barrister and author Philippe Sands, TV presenter Liz Bonnin, and Dr Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury. Naomi Clements-Brod, festival manager (sciences), said: “Through its sheer volume and scope, the Cambridge Festival is a true reflection of the immense im...

Seven deadly economic sins by James Otteson  29 January 2021 at 03:44 |  Every Citizen Should Know ISBN 97811008843379 316 pages Hardcover/$27.95 April 2021 You have heard of the Seven Deadly Sins: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. Each is a natural human weakness that impedes happiness. In addition to these vices, however, there are economic sins as well. And they, too, wreak havoc on our lives and in society. They can seem intuitively compelling, yet they lea...