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...
The U.S. Air Force Academy likewise sought racial diversity through double standards. A 1982 memorandum on Air Force Academy stationery, with the notation for your eyes only, listed different cut-off...
President Obama keeps telling us that he is creating jobs. But more and more Americans have no jobs. The unemployment rate has declined slightly, but only because many people have stopped looking for...
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...
In short, some of the least qualified students, taught by the least qualified professors in the lowest quality courses supply most American public school teachers.
If we wanted to be serious about evidence, we might compare where blacks stood a hundred years after the end of slavery with where they stood after 30 years of the liberal welfare state. In other word...
Have you gone crazy, Lefty? No. On the contrary, I have become educated. Sometimes that’s worse, these days.
Guns are completely inappropriate for the kind of sheep-like people the anointed envision or the orderly, prepackaged world in which they are to live. When you are in mortal danger, you are supposed t...
Differences in habits and attitudes are differences in human capital, just as much as differences in knowledge and skills—and such differences create differences in economic outcomes.
Complex and time-consuming international economic transactions, including long-term investments, are particularly dependent on a reliable framework of law, so that changes of government policy or of i...
By the late eighteenth century, the lowlands of Scotland had developed the most extensive system of educationin
Among the precepts that Andrew Jackson's mother taught him were never to sue anybody for slander or for assault and battery: Always settle them cases yourself.
A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
A mere enumeration of government activity is evidence -- often the sole evidence offered -- of inadequate nongovernment institutions, whose inability to cope with problems obviously required state int...
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to...
Isolation is a recurring factor in poverty and backwardness around the world, whether that is physical isolation or cultural isolation, for any number of particular reasons
Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present- not where we wish we were, or whee we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.
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.
People who have already been out in the real world, practicing for years whatever their particular specialty might be, have some basis for determining which things are relevant enough to go into a cur...
Other countries whose educational systems achieve more than ours often do so in part by attempting less. While school children in Japan are learning science, mathematics, and a foreign language, Ameri...