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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: believers could never know for sure whether they had been saved, but material success portended well f...

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 and György Lukács to the Frankfurt School and the media-savvy Herbert Marcuse. He also provides 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 his presentation. Afterward, a representative for Arjuna Capital (which “works with high net-worth ...

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 (but not in the way that today’s totalitarian progressives would understand.) Progressivism has a...

Happened, it didn't just -- this isn't 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 what's 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 the district attorney and his wife. but there are some things that could have been -- any number ...