Race and Rhetoric
One of the things that turned up, during a long-overdue cleanup of my office, was an old yellowed copy of the New York Times dated July 24, 1992. One of the...
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The ‘Inevitability’ Vote
Many people may be voting for Mitt Romney because of the view in some quarters that he is the inevitable Republican candidate for President of the United States and the candidate...
Racial Quota Fallout
Many years ago, I learned of an episode in the life of a promising young black man that is relevant to things happening now. He had been educated at a good...
The Big Hoax
There have been many frauds of historic proportions — for example, the financial pyramid scheme for which Charles Ponzi was sent to prison in the 1920s, and for which Franklin D....
James Q. Wilson (1931-2012)
There are undoubtedly many people who are alive today because of James Q. Wilson, who died last week. He was not a doctor or medical scientist, nor was he a fireman...
Academic Hypocrisy
It is fascinating to see people accusing others of things that they themselves are doing, especially when their own sins are worse. ...
The Progressive Legacy: Part III
The same presumptions of superior wisdom and virtue behind the interventionism of Progressive Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson in the domestic economy also led them to be interventionists in other...
The Progressive Legacy: Part II
"Often wrong but never in doubt" is a phrase that summarizes much of what was done by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, the two giants of the Progressive era, a...
The ‘Progressive’ Legacy
Although Barack Obama is the first black President of the United States, he is by no means unique, except for his complexion. He follows in the footsteps of other presidents with...
The Anti-Romney Vote
A funny thing happened to Mitt Romney on the way to his coronation as the inevitable Republican candidate for President of the United States. Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado happened. Rick Santorum...
Romney: Index Minimum Wage to Inflation
Governor Mitt Romney's statement about not worrying about the poor has been treated as a gaffe in much of the media, and those in the Republican establishment who have been rushing...
Getting Nowhere, Very Fast — on High-speed Rail
California has a huge state debt and Washington has a huge national debt. But that does not discourage either Governor Jerry Brown or President Barack Obama from wanting to launch a...
A Brass Age?
This may be the golden age of presumptuous ignorance. The most recent demonstrations of that are the Occupy Wall Street mobs. It is doubtful how many of these semi-literate sloganizers could...
The Tragic Politics of Envy and Resentment
Different histories, geography, demography and cultures have left various groups, races, nations and civilizations with radically different abilities to create wealth. ...
Untangling the Factors Affecting Human Achievements
Anyone who has ever been in a Third World country, or even in a slum neighborhood at home, is likely to wonder why there can be such dire poverty among some...