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...
It is a classic example of arguing against a caricature instead of confronting the argument actually made. While
Including the differential mortgage loan approval rates between Asian Americans and whites shows that the same methods to conclude that that blacks are discriminated against in mortgage lending would...
In short, even though some individual slaveowners grew rich and some family fortunes were founded on the exploitation of slaves, that is very different from saying that the whole society, or even its...
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...
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
Electric cars may be fun at amusement parks, where they don’t have to go very far or very fast. But if the consuming public wanted electric cars for regular use, Detroit would be manufacturing them by...
But the actual arguments advocated by Secretary Mellon had nothing to do with a trickle-down theory. Mellon pointed out that, under the high income tax rates at the end of the Woodrow Wilson administr...
But his was an understandable mistake, given how little attention is paid to accuracy in history and how often history is used as just a propaganda tool in current controversies.
Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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.
Where beliefs are not checked against facts, but instead facts must meet the test of consonance with the prevailing vision, we are in the process of sealing ourselves off from feedback from reality.He...
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 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...
Under these escalating wartime income tax rates, the number of people reporting taxable incomes of more than $300,000— a huge sum in the money of that era— declined from well over a thousand in 1916 t...
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.
To be sensitive, as ideologically defined, requires that one not merely accept but affirm other people’s way of life or even celebrate diversity in general. Like other demands for sensitivity, this de...