Sometimes it can be helpful to consider atypical examples of a subject you are studying. In the Welcome post for this blog, I quoted Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, which defines “to produce” as “to give birth or rise to,” “to cause to have existence or to happen,” “to compose, create, or bring out by intellectual or physical effort.” With this definition in…
As recounted in a recent New YorkTimes article, President Emanuel Macron of France has been trying to persuade supporters of the Yellow Vest protest movement that his proposals will alleviate their economic pains. Some in the movement have called for an increase in taxes on the wealthiest citizens, in order to make more equal the current tax burden, and also…