An Ignored ‘Disparity’: Higher Education
One of the ways of trying to reduce the vast disparities in economic success, which are common in countries around the world, is by making higher education more widely available, even...
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An Ignored “Disparity”: Ability to Create Wealth
With all the talk about "disparities" in innumerable contexts, there is one very important disparity that gets remarkably little attention — disparities in the ability to create wealth. People who are...
Kodak and the Post Office
The news that Eastman Kodak is preparing to file for bankruptcy, after being the leading photographic company in the world for more than a hundred years, truly marks the end of...
Random Thoughts
Random thoughts on the passing scene: Talk show host Dennis Miller said, "I don't dig polo. It's like miniature golf meets the Kentucky Derby." ...
Gridlock to the Rescue?
Washington gridlock may turn out to be the salvation of the Obama administration. ...
Christmas Books
The joys of Christmas do not include coping with crowds at shopping malls or wracking your brains trying to figure out what to get as a gift for someone who already...
Lessons of History?
It used to be common for people to urge us to learn "the lessons of history." But history gets much less attention these days and, if there are any lessons that...
Gingrich and Immigration
Now that Newt Gingrich has become the latest in a series of Republican frontrunners, he is getting the kinds of scrutiny and attacks that have done in other frontrunners. ...
Super Committee Failure — or Success?
Many people are lamenting the failure of the Congressional "Super Committee" to come up with an agreement on ways to reduce the runaway federal deficits. But you cannot judge success or...
Alice in Liberal Land
Alice in Wonderland was written by a professor who also wrote a book on symbolic logic. So it is not surprising that Alice encountered not only strange behavior in Wonderland, but...
Will Republicans Blow It?
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said that a good catch phrase could stop thinking for 50 years. One of the often-repeated catch phrases of our time — "It's the economy, stupid!" —...
The Real Scandal: Legalized Extortion
The real scandal in the accusations against Herman Cain is the corruption of the law, the media and politics. ...
Numbers Games & the Top One Percent
One of the things that has struck me, when I have gone on luxury cruise ships, is that most of the passengers look like they are older than the captain —...
Occupy Wall Street, Democracy & Mob Rule
In various cities across the country, mobs of mostly young, mostly incoherent, often noisy and sometimes violent demonstrators are making themselves a major nuisance. ...
Payday Loans
California is a great place for studying the thinking — or lack of thinking — on the political left. ...