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How Religion Influenced Modern Economics April 23, 2021 “One of the fundamental elements of the spirit of modern capitalism,” German sociologist Max Weber wrote in his landmark 1905 book, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, “of rational conduct on the basis of the idea of the calling, was born from the spirit of Christian asceticism.” Weber attributed the free-market success so prevalent amongst Protestant societies to its origins in Calvinist predestinarian theology: be...

Friday, April 23, 2021 Why Are So Many Corporate Executives Acting Woke? Any thinking person looking over the current social, political and corporate landscape is sure to be asking: Why are so many top corporate executives acting woke? The book provides an overview of the problem from its historical-philosophical foundations to current day major woke players From the historical-philosophical perspective, Soukup provides an excellent overview of all the major influencers from Antonio Gramsci an...

How Leftists Captured Big Business February 26, 2021 During the 2019 shareholder season, Justin Danhof, general counsel for the National Center for Public Policy Research, tabled a shareholder proposal at Amazon’s annual meeting. “Diversity in board composition is best achieved though highly qualified candidates with a wide range of skills, experience, beliefs, and board independence from management,” it read. Uncontroversial, one might think, but Danhof was booed and heckled throughout h...

This incisive article, Minimum Wages Had a Eugenic Intent, discusses the true intent of minimum wage laws from the most noted and prominent economists of the Progressive Era. (Open and view this slide-show on Excluding Inferior Workers: Eugenic Influences on Economic Reform in The Progressive Era, in a new window) Like their modern day descendants in the academy, media and institutional welfare state bureaucracy they were obsessed with racial, gender, and other categories of identity politics...

Happened, it didnt just -- this isnt an ideology battle here. this was financial. they took away some of their drug mules they took away people on the outside who were supplying them. >> richard ely. what is your response to that. what do you think about what you just heard? >> well, i think whats going on here is that maybe part of it, but i would be skeptical at this point of saying at one particular group was responsible for these terrible, terrible shootings. it is horrible what happened to ...

Is drug trafficking. >> richard ely, thanks so much for helping us understand. appreciate your time. today is the day, dozens of atlanta teachers and administrators are expected to turn themselves in. theyre accused of cheating on test scores to help pad the paychecks. their paychecks. the wrongful death trial in michael jacksons death is under way. at the center of the case, one key question. were live in los angeles with todays developments next. great first gig! lets go! party! awwwww... ...

Brotherhood. the texas aryan brotherhood is known as a violent white supremacist group. they operate out of prisons and jails and on the outside as well. richard ely is a houston based attorney who dealt with the group and once defended one of its members. richard ely. if you would, listen to a former white supremacist, a man who was up on this group, he believes that the texas aryan brotherhood is indeed behind these murders. listen in. >> the aryan brotherhood is trying to relay a message they...

0 fire to vehicles inside that capital. in nepal, cows now becoming a major traffic problem. police starting a campaign to round up the cows that are roaming the streets. pretty cool. thats it for me. fredricka whitfield takes it from here. >> thanks so much, suzanne. have a great day. hello, everyone. welcome to the "cnn newsroom." happening right now, frantic manhunt for these two texas inmates. they scaled a barbed wire fence today, forcing 15 nearby schools to lock down. now a massive se...