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.
People who want special taxes or subsidies for particular things seem not to understand that what they are really asking for is for the prices to misstate the relative scarcities of things and the rel...
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...
Moreover, even at elite colleges, the personnel attracted to college admissions are seldom themselves part of the intellectual elite. Yet their job is to select students unlike themselves, to be taugh...
Like mismatched minority students, mismatched minority faculty have sought refuge in non-intellectual pursuits, such as community activities and campus political activism, in denunciations of standard...
Just as price fluctuations allocate scarce resources which have alternative uses, price controls which limit those fluctuations reduce the incentives for individuals to limit their own use of scarce r...
In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is called social justice might more accurately be called anti-social justice, since wh...
Have you gone crazy, Lefty? No. On the contrary, I have become educated. Sometimes that’s worse, these days.
A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
A Yoruba governor, defeated through vote fraud, was later found by a court to have won in fact by a million votes.
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.
Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
When it is proclaimed that one must become more sensitive to various ethnic, linguistic, sexual, or lifestyle groups, neither a reason nor a definition usually accompanies this opaque imperative.
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
What actually followed the cuts in tax rates in the 1920s were rising output, rising employment to produce that output, rising incomes as a result and rising tax revenues for the government because of...
To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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...