Prostitution In Chicago: Starting Wage $27 Per Hour

Female residents of The Second City have a tremendous occupational opportunity, with earnings of up to $20,000 per year. The job: prostitution. This according to a recent paper by Professor Steve Levitt, the coauthor of Freakonomics. The paper details the economics of prostitution in Chicago. The author’s approach, along [...]

Yo: The New Gender-Neutral Pronoun

Anybody who spends time writing is, at one time or another, vexed by the lack of a gender-neutral (should read sex-neutral) pronoun in the English language. Attempts have been made to overcome this problem either by avoiding indefinite pronouns, or by the use of his or her or his/her. Both of these fixes [...]

Atlas Shrugged: Fifty Years Later Ayn Rand’s Novel Continues to Have Immense Influence

Fifty years ago “Atlas Shrugged” was published. “Atlas Shrugged” is the story the most able and creative people in the world withdrawing from society and refusing to be exploited by looters and governments that benefit from their talents yet condemn them for their success. Dagny Taggart is the main character, through which we [...]

Book Review: Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande

Written by a surgeon, this book is a collection of essays about medicine and much more. Dr. Gawande is a staff member of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, graduate of Stanford, Oxford, and Harvard.

The essays are seamless and extraordinarily easy to read, even when explaining complex issues. The overarching [...]

Book Review: World War Z

The book is World War Z. The story is about how the human race almost came to meet its demise.

If Tom Clancy were to do a book about zombies, it would be much like this. This book, however, was penned by the son of Mel Brooks, the man behind Spaceballs–and the heritage is sometimes apparent.

The [...]