Members of the generation currently entering the workforce are typically obsessed with their own mental well-being and achieving “work-life balance”, writes Laura Pappano in Jewish World Review – yet are also so unskilled and socially awkward that they need special college-level courses on how to behave in a professional meeting, write emoji-free e-mails or pursue a job after graduation.
Blueprint for Alberta?
Writing in Jewish World Review, Frederic Fransen reminds Americans of a key lesson from Revolutionary War-era pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. “The colonies need to declare independence,” Fransen summarizes Paine, “because so long as their goal was seen as reconciliation, foreign governments would consider the Americans as rebels and the conflict an internal affair.” But a unilateral declaration of independence, Fransen notes, instantly converts mere complaints from an aggrieved group into a negotiation between sovereign states.
