Paris Saint-Germain forward Kylian Mbappe is not interested in joining Saudi Pro League club Al-Hilal, according to multiple reports.Al-Hilal reportedly made a world record €300 million bid to sign Mbappe and also offered the player €700m.
This, with the buying of the world golf game, seems to be an astonishing effort on the part of the Saudis to buy culture. And, possibly, for some elements of the Western world, to sell it.
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Interesting interview with an immigrant woman who, incidentally, mentioned that every year she celebrates the day of her naturalization.
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This is a fascinating--if small--story: PragerU has made an announcement on Twitter that its teaching materials have been approved for use in Florida Public Schools.
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Three members of a Colorado family died while attempting to live "off the grid" in the Rocky Mountains, family members and investigators say.
The emaciated remains of sisters Christine and Rebecca Vance and the latter's 14-year old son, were found in a remote campsite this month.
On Tuesday a coroner ruled that they probably died from starvation or exposure during the cold winter.
As difficult as success is to attain, a certain mindset is preoccupied with why everyone isn't successful. The expectation of homogeneity. The suspicion of a thumb on the scale.
"In a wider view of the history of the human race since its beginnings, the entire species was very poor, primitive and densely ignorant for more than 90 percent of its existence. The decisive innovation of agriculture, within the last 5 percent or so of the existence of the human species, opened up vast new possibilities for creating cities, civilizations and the progress in many dimensions that has been built on that foundation. As we have seen, that progress was never equally accessible to all people in all geographic locations or equally sought by all cultures, much less equally compatible with all social conditions or political systems.
It is not poverty that needs to be explained but what combinations of circumstances, come together in particular places and times to enable economic progress to take place."--Sowell
Three members of a Colorado family died while attempting to live "off the grid" in the Rocky Mountains, family members and investigators say.
The emaciated remains of sisters Christine and Rebecca Vance and the latter's 14-year old son, were found in a remote campsite this month.
On Tuesday a coroner ruled that they probably died from starvation or exposure during the cold winter.
As difficult as success is to attain, a certain mindset is preoccupied with why everyone isn't successful. The expectation of homogeneity. The suspicion of a thumb on the scale.
"In a wider view of the history of the human race since its beginnings, the entire species was very poor, primitive and densely ignorant for more than 90 percent of its existence. The decisive innovation of agriculture, within the last 5 percent or so of the existence of the human species, opened up vast new possibilities for creating cities, civilizations and the progress in many dimensions that has been built on that foundation. As we have seen, that progress was never equally accessible to all people in all geographic locations or equally sought by all cultures, much less equally compatible with all social conditions or political systems.
It is not poverty that needs to be explained but what combinations of circumstances, come together in particular places and times to enable economic progress to take place."--Sowell
Still, the miracle of progress and success is always viewed with suspicion, as if the escape from our benighted past is possible only with distortion. Success is the land's only unpopular outlier.
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