Election Day: Painful Choices
Let's talk sense about the election. Nothing is to be gained by refusing to face the hard facts. What are those facts? ...
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The Left’s Vision
The political left keeps announcing, as if it is a new breakthrough discovery of theirs, that life is unfair. ...
Has Economics Failed?
Prices convey economic realities that do not change just because the government changes the prices. It is as if someone's fever was treated by putting the thermometer in cold water to...
Immigration Controversies
People who came here a hundred years ago usually did so in order to fit within the framework of America and become Americans. Some still do. But many come from a...
The Left and the Masses: Part III
What role is there for the masses in the vision of the left? One role is to provide a moral basis for the left to claim power, as defenders of the...
The Left and the Masses: Part II
It is never easy to tell what people’s motives are. But, when the political left proclaims their devotion to improving the lives of others in general, and of the poor in...
The Left and the Masses
The greatest moral claim of the political left is that they are for the masses in general and the poor in particular. That is also their greatest fraud. It even fools...
Dunbar High School After 100 Years
One hundred years ago, on October 2, 1916, a new public high school building for black youngsters was opened in Washington, D.C. and named for black poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Its...
The Academic Curtain
There is no barbed wire around our campuses, nor armed guards keeping unwelcome ideas out. So there is no "iron curtain." But there is a curtain, and it has its effect....
“Favors” to Blacks
Many successful political careers have been built on giving blacks “favors” that look good on the surface but do lasting damage in the long run. ...
Election Year Books
Election year politics generates much rhetoric and confusion. And the media often adds its spin. But, fortunately, there are some books around that deal with reality and can cut through the...
Racial Issues
Ordinarily, it is not a good idea to base how you vote on just one issue. But if black lives really matter, as they should matter like all other lives, then...
Misleading Statistics
Mark Twain famously said that there were three kinds of lies — "lies, damned lies, and statistics." Since this is an election year, we can expect to hear plenty of all...
A Gem in Chicago
We have gotten so used to seeing college presidents and other academic "leaders" caving in to so many outrageous demands from little gangs of bullying students that it is a long...
Abstract Immigrants in an Abstract World
Why would a country with the world's largest Jewish population, outside of Israel, admit large numbers of immigrants from countries where hatred of Jews has been taught to their people from...