Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Ethical Human Resources Management

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Ethics applied to human resource management is typically thought to boil down to treating subordinates well. Kant’s categorical imperative, ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Hypocritical CSR during a Pandemic: O’Reilly Automotive, Inc.

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In the retail sector, the behavior of managers and their employees at the store level is particularly relevant to customers. This relevance,...
Monday, November 16, 2020

On the Rushed Sainthood of Pope John Paul II: Metaphysics and Ideology Triumphant

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Just days after the death of Pope John Paul II, “cardinals eager to uphold his conservative policies had already begun discussing putting hi...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Corporate Federalism: Did AOL Miss an Opportunity?

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Citing twelve past and present AOL employees, The Wa ll Street Journal characterized AOL in 2011 as a “culture of clashing fiefs and perso...

Taxation and Economic Inequality

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The top 1% of U.S. taxpayers had 19.4% of the total income in 2007 and paid 28.1% of all federal taxes. In 1987, the top 1% had had 11.2% o...
Monday, November 9, 2020

Bank One: Adding to Systemic Risk after the Financial Crisis of 2008

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The financial crisis in September 2008 was indeed a crisis, and yet it is stunning how soon the American financial sector sought to undermin...
Friday, November 6, 2020

American Federalism Eclipsed by an Ideal of Democracy: Education Over Immigration as a Constitutional Problem

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The U.S. Constitution includes immigration as one of the listed (i.e., enumerated) powers of the federal government. Education is not such a...
Thursday, November 5, 2020

The Right of Political Protest in the U.S.: Nullified in the Outback by Intimidation

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The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states in part, “Congress shall make no law respecting . . . the right of the people peaceably ...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

Deficit Reduction and Tax Breaks: Rhetoric and Reality

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Actions speak louder than words. A tree is known by its fruit. Where your treasure is, therein lies your heart. These three sayings each hav...

The Tyranny of the Veto: Eviscerating the U.N.

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Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution on October 4, 2011, effectively tossing a life preserver, according to the New ...
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

On the Ethics of Business Donations and Saving Souls

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In the film,  Major Barbara  (1941),  Barbara, a Major in the Salvation Army, has been raised with her sister and brother by their mother. S...
Monday, October 19, 2020

Coronavirus Reveals Dysfunctional Culture in Arizona

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In mid-October, 2020, when the coronavirus was again peaking in E.U. states such as France and Germany and U.S. states such as Wisconsin and...
Friday, September 25, 2020

On the Arrogance of Self-Entitlement during a Pandemic

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In the midst of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, libertarians in San Francisco, California objected to wearing face masks. Other people there ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Ruth Bader Ginsberg: Societal Change as the Mission of the U.S. Supreme Court

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By chance, I watched RBG (2018), a documentary on Ruth Bader Ginsberg, a U.S. Supreme Court justice, on the day she died in 2020. Being just...
Saturday, September 12, 2020

On the American Military-Industrial Complex

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A democratic republic affords many avenues for organized private interests to influence public policy. The fact that such interests are orga...