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Peter Morici: Are universities morphing into Orwellian states? China's Social Credit System

Peter Morici: Are universities morphing into Orwellian states?

Americans are experimenting with methods similar to China’s social credit system. By tracking student movements and regulating faculty to standards of political correctness, they risk socializing young people to the methods of high-tech authoritarian state control. Syracuse University, the University of North Carolina and others are installing wi-fi apps and…
bubmag
January 27, 2020
Beyond the Growth Gospel Old-Age Poverty

Beyond the Growth Gospel

The history of modern economic planning doubles as a resort travelogue. In 1947, the forefathers of neoliberalism launched their world-conquering project at the Hôtel Du Parc on Mont Pèlerin in the Swiss Alps. Global economic consensus has remained synonymous with jet-setting hospitality in the decades since. From Davos to Doha,…
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January 27, 2020
Words used to describe Auschwitz stir controversy, 75 years on Holocaust

Words used to describe Auschwitz stir controversy, 75 years on

Oswiecim, Poland - One tour group jutted up against another on a recent, cold Wednesday at Auschwitz, the German Nazi concentration and death camp complex. Guides shuffled guests through the crematorium, the torture block, barracks and displays, like human hair shorn from prisoners after their death in gas chambers.  Now known as the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and…
bubmag
January 27, 2020