Articles 2024
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Are You a Woman? Dove Thinks You're Stupid
Bloomberg View, April 24, 2014
The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty has finally overreached.
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How Much Free Speech Will Your Child Have at College?
Bloomberg View, April 22, 2014
Four important questions to ask on those campus tours.
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Paul Krugman, Brand Ambassador
Bloomberg View, April 16, 2014
CUNY isn’t paying for Krugman's Nobel-winning research on trade theory any more than J'Adore hired Charlize Theron because of her Oscar-winning turn as a serial killer in "Monster." They’re buying his image and the attention he brings.
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Crowdfunding Is Not a Scam, It's Market Research
Bloomberg View, March 28, 2014
The most successful crowdfunding projects aren’t charities. They’re ventures that produce something people wish they could buy. That makes crowdfunding a great way to test the market.
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Michelangelo's David Has a Right to Bear Arms
Bloomberg View, March 17, 2014
Michelangelo’s giant was meant as an inspiration to locals and a warning to would-be invaders. He wasn’t an underwear model. He was a Minuteman. Putting a gun in his hand may look weird, but it’s a lot truer to his original meaning than a souvenir apron.
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'Average' Barbie Is Just as Fake
Bloomberg View, March 10, 2014
As a mass-produced product, a doll represents a single version of female proportions. Taken as a role model, any single standard excludes those with a different build. Celebrating “average” doesn’t solve the problem.
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Cutting-Edge Feminists of Latter-Day Saints
Bloomberg View, March 06, 2014
Thanks to the First Amendment, the least regulated market in America is the market for religion. It’s also one of the most competitive. To attract and retain members, religious groups are constantly adapting and innovating, in sometimes surprising ways. No one in 1970 would have imagined that by the turn of the century, evangelical Protestants would be worshipping to rock music in mega-churches. A long New York Times article this weekend profiled another such adaptation: a change in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints’s policies toward young women going on two-year Mormon missions. After the church lowered the age requirement for women from 21 to 19 in October 2012, the number of female missionaries about tripled, to 23,000.
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Oscar Likes the Older Women
Bloomberg View, February 28, 2014
So much for the theory that Hollywood has no place for women who’ve outgrown ingenue roles: At 39, Amy Adams is the youngest of this year’s Academy Award nominees for best actress. It’s the oldest slate in history, with an average age of 55 and a median of 49.
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Obama Fails Art History and Economics
Bloomberg View, January 31, 2014
President Obama had a perfectly fine message for young people when he spoke at a General Electric plant in Wisconsin yesterday: Learning a skilled trade can be just as lucrative and worthy of respect as getting a college diploma. Unfortunately, that’s not what he said. Instead, he took a cheap shot at the favorite punching bag of people who deride higher education in general and the liberal arts in particular. He attacked art history.
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Is There a Right Way to Have Cancer?
Bloomberg View, January 13, 2014
Cancer is one of those subjects like diet or child-rearing where everyone seems to have a strong opinion about the right way to do things.