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Suzanne Lucas, better known as the Evil HR Lady, spent 10 years in corporate HR where she hired, fired, managed the numbers, and double-checked with the lawyers. She left corporate life to focus on making HR better for everyone. She writes and speaks about how to make your business truly employee focused and how to avoid the pitfalls so many other businesses face. Her work has appeared at Inc.com, CBS News, the New York Times, and many other publications. Her blog is www.EvilHRlady.org

July 17, 2019|Civil Rights Act, Equality Act, Freedom of Religion, LGBTQ Rights, Masterpiece Cakeshop, Title VII

Is There “Equality” in the Equality Act?

by Suzanne Lucas|

Image by Yuriy Golub (shutterstock.com)
The Equality Act removes protections for people who have deeply held religious beliefs that conflict with homosexual behavior.

July 6, 2018|

Social Mores Have Changed; Biology Hasn’t

by Suzanne Lucas|

In response to: Desire or Dominance?: Sexual Harassment’s Legal Maze

In the legal wild west that is Title VII, egregious acts can go unpunished even as someone else gets in trouble over a chance remark in an elevator.

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Unlawful Discrimination Is Supposed to Be about Group-Based Animus

by Mark Pulliam

How did Title VII’s ban on discrimination become the basis for regulating sexual innuendo, lewd comments, and other risqué conduct in the workplace?

Beware the Backlash

by Cathy Young

If #MeToo encounters a society-wide backlash, its positive effect may wear off.

Sexual Harassment Law: Rachel Lu’s Response

by Rachel Lu

There’s a way forward if we can separate isolated cases of improperly expressed attraction from cases bound up in broader prejudicial attitudes to women.

Book Reviews

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

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The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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Liberty Classics

Rereading Politica in the Post-Liberal Moment

by Glenn A. Moots

Althusius offers a rich constitutionalism that empowers persons to thrive alongside one another in deliberate communities.

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James Fenimore Cooper and the American Experiment

by Melissa Matthes

In The American Democrat, James Fenimore Cooper defended democracy against both mob rule and majority tyranny.

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Podcasts

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

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Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

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Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

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America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

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