P rofessors Freeman and Medoff have created quite a stir with What Do Unions Do?—the first substantial pro-union book by economists in decades. The book has drawn an extraordinary amount of (mostly favorable) attention, with articles in magazines such as Business Week and Fortune, a full-scale symposium in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and coverage in many academic journals. All the at...

Writers presenting Buddhism to European and North American audiences have often availed themselves of philosophical terminology from modern traditions to convey presumably less familiar ideas coming from various classical and medieval Asian settings. Since the Buddha and many philosophers who developed his ideas seem to have stressed the importance of practice over theory, Buddhism is frequentl...

Those with genuinely humane motives are most likely to prolong life or alleviate suffering by bringing existing medical knowledge to bear in those parts of the world where men and women are suffering and dying because they cannot afford any treatment Yet many scientists prefer Animal rights activists are often accused of showing to spend their lives in laboratories causing untold more concern f...

David Levy and Sandra Peart mean to revise the history of nineteenth-century British political economy. And more. In their latest, fascinating installment, The Vanity of the Philosopher, Peart and Levy argue that the transition from classical to post-classical economics is best understood as a sea change in the way political economists regarded human nature. What happened? Well, in the beginnin...

K. Scott Oliphint’s recent volume on apologetics is, on its own merits, a noteworthy and useful work.2 Its importance does not rest in its novelty, and that by design. Oliphint acknowledges in his introduction that “this book will...translate the language, concepts, and ideas set forth in [Cornelius] Van Til’s Reformed apologetic into language, terms, and concepts that are more accessible.”3 Wh...

On 19 November 1975 Francisco Franco lay dying in Madrid's La Paz hospital. Clutching the cloak of Virgin del Pilar , and with ill-gotten relic St Teresa Ávila's hand at his bedside, ailing dictator would soon depart this existence following withdrawal life support. For Enrique Moradiellos Franco: Anatomy a Dictator juxtaposition modernity tradition within deathbed scene was emblematic countles...

The idea of writing about this topic originated from observations on social media that several Christian apologists were entangled in the law due to alleged blasphemy cases and spread false information when defending faith. This study aims find rule law's cause effect blasphemy, provide insight into purpose apologetics, explain how apologetics does not violate legal or religious norms. method u...

The article researches a number of issues related to the Slavophile worldview in 1840s–1880s and their work aimed at development national consciousness Russian society: attitude Peter Great’s reforms, Slavic world revolution. also examines role Slavophiles had played Orthodox outlook society foundations future Church structure, slogan “Orthodoxy. Autocracy. Nationality”. It considers among gove...

The fishes of the early and middle Devonian found themselves forced to choose between the invading salt water marshes and the isolated freshwater pools which periodically contracted into stagnant swamps or hard mud flats. .. The more advanced of the fishes, however, in order to survive in the stagnant waters of the continents, took to swallowing air and thus invented lungs and prepared the way ...

A new approach to eating has emerged in America in the last five years; adherents call themselves “locavores” and argue for the value of eating local, sustainably grown food as a better model for both human health and the environment. Although the term locavore was coined recently (in 2006, by Jessica Prentice in her book Full Moon Feast), the concept has so appealed to Americans, the label alm...