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“He’s doing all kinds of useful reforms,” Frankel said. “If you try to think who among Mexican presidents have tried to do the right reforms, there’s nobody to compare him with.”
Polycarbonate plastic is used for a reason: It's useful. Hard, shatterproof, lightweight and clear, it's in a huge range of products from water bottles and food storage containers, to lenses in eyeglasses and car headlights, CDs and DVDs, and even bulletproof glass. "Whether you realize it or not...
Ehrman's problem, however, is that although the Bible sets out to do a lot of things, tweezing out a systemic argument on suffering isn't one of them. Those who attempted that came later (posing it, for instance, as a consequence of the gift of free will), and Ehrman...
Harvard is a university particularly enamored by statistics: a nine percent acceptance rate, a $35 billion endowment, and 15 million holdings in the library system. These are numbers that define and meter out the quantity of Harvard’s prestige. We are superior to our peer institutions, it seems...
Effective liberty, then, depends not on the absolute laws of classical economics—one of the most useful but most overused paradigms of sociopolitical thought—but rather on a pragmatic approach that recognizes the complexity, nuance, and newness of each situation.