Ed Finn has a blog entry at rabble.ca that I highly recommend. His thesis can roughly be summarized in this excerpt: The glue that holds any society together is faith in its governments, courts, churches, unions and non-profits — faith that these organizations, no matter how flawed, will always be
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Dead Wild Roses: Quote from The Irony of American History – Reinhold Niebuhr
Reading dry academic books so you don’t have to… 🙂 Niebuhr tackles what he sees as contradictions in the base make up of American culture. He uses a plethora of words to say what he means, but importantly, he zeros in how important collective action is – even in a society that claims to […]
Continue readingLaw is Cool: The Fallency and Impracticality of Work-Life Balance
By Leo Tam PRLG 722 Sec 101 Posted on: Jun 15, 2014 Work life balance is the effort to separate pressure from work from interfering with personal lives of individual employees. The ultimate goal of a work life balance is to avoid a burn-out due to excessive work. Work and
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