lthough the basic principles of economics are not very complicated, the very ease with which they can be learned also makes them easy to dismissed as "simplistic" by those who do not want to accept an...
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
Although Adam Smith is today often regarded as a conservative figure, he in fact attacked some of the dominant ideas and interests of his own times. Moreover, the idea of a spontaneously self-equilibr...
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.
As an entrepreneur in India put it: 'Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
Between 50,000 and 100,000 Huguenots fled to Britain from France in the seventeenth century, particularly after revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which had previously guaranteed religious freedom to...
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...
Have you gone crazy, Lefty? No. On the contrary, I have become educated. Sometimes that’s worse, these days.
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...
If you are serious about education, then you need to start a lot earlier than fifteen years old to give each child a decent shot at life in the real world, as distinguished from make-believe equality...
More to the point, if he did cancel the tour in order to fight that tax, would we regard him as a rational man of high principle or as a doctrinaire, a moral exhibitionist, or an egomaniac
Moreover, even in the absence of accumulating personal experience, it was difficult to believe that soaring murder statistics reflected simply better record keeping, since it had always been hard to i...
Nada es más fácil que tener buenas intenciones. Pero cuando no se entiende cómo funciona una economía, las buenas intenciones pueden llevar a consecuencias desastrosas
One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
Slippery use of the word privilege is part of a vogue of calling achievements privileges—a vogue which extends far beyond educational issues, spreading a toxic confusion in many other aspects of life.
Some years ago, in my syndicated column, I challenged anyone to name any economist, of any school of thought, who had actually advocated a trickle down theory. No one quoted any economist, politician...
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...
There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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