1:THE CRISIS: Although Chief Judge Bazelon said in 1960 that we desperately need all the help we can get from modern behavioral scientists69 in dealing with the criminal law, the cold facts suggest no...
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
Millions of people died in the war to make the world safe for democracy—a war that led to autocratic dynasties being replaced by totalitarian dictatorships that slaughtered far more of their own peopl...
While the Obama administration in Washington is not the root cause of the ominous dangers that face this country, at home and abroad, it is the embodiment, the personification and the culmination of d...
What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
There cannot be a law-abiding society if no one knows in advance what law they are to abide by, but must wait for judges to create ex post facto legal rulings based on evolving standards rather than k...
The virtually unanimous support of bilingualism among Hispanic activists, leaders and spokesmen—in contrast to Hispanic parents—is understandable only in terms of the self-interest of those activists,...
The traditional fixed-rate 30-year mortgages, which were once a majority of all mortgages, were no longer a majority during the housing boom, as ARMs and other creative ways of financing the purchase...
The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work a...
The ideological component of multiculturalism can be summarized as a cultural relativism which finds the prominence of Western civilization in the world or in the schools intolerable. Behind this atti...
The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
The history of black workers in the United States illustrates the point. As already noted, from the late nineteenth-century on through the middle of the twentieth century, the labor force participatio...
The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to be...
That educators who have repeatedly failed to do what they are hired to do, and trained to do, should take on sweeping roles as amateur psychologists, sociologists, and social philosophers seems almost...
Such are the ways of politics, where the crusade of the hour often blocks out everything else, at least until another crusade comes along and takes over the same monopoly of our minds.
Seldom do people think things through foolishly. More often, they do not bother to think things through at all, so that even brainy individuals can reach untenable conclusions because their brainpower...
People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid. Much of the stupidity we see today is induced by our educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities. In a high-tech age...
Only in the light of this agenda does it make sense that so-called sex education should be advocated to take place throughout the school years—from kindergarten to college—when it could not possibly t...
No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.