A 1972 study showed that the amount of pollution per mile traveled by horse was a hundred times the amount of pollution per mile traveled by automobile.27 Since the cars produced in later years have h...
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...
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
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...
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.
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 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...
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...
Outside the world of education, few would be confident, or even comfortable, claiming that it is a lack of self-esteem which leads to felonies or its presence which leads to Nobel Prizes. Yet American...
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...
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 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...
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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...
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.
By the late eighteenth century, the lowlands of Scotland had developed the most extensive system of educationin
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...
Would be hard to think of a more monocultural, insular and self-complacent nation than Japan—and vet the Japanese are among the leading participants in the international economy, in international scie...