Opportunity alone is not sufficient for economic or other accomplishments.
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
If there is an optimistic aspect of preferential doctrines, it is that they may eventually make so many Americans so sick of hearing of group labels and percentages that the idea of judging each indiv...
In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
Minimum wage laws appear to give low-income workers something for nothing—and appearances are what count in politics. Realities can be left to others, so long as appearances get votes.
Perhaps the most important thing about risk is its inescapability. Particular individuals, groups, or institutions may be sheltered from risk - but only at the cost of having someone else bear that ri...
Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
That some leader dangerous to the basic institutions of American society would arise, Lincoln thought inevitable. Safeguarding these institutions would require a public sufficiently united, sufficient...
The facts are unmistakably plain, for those who bother to check the facts. In 1921, when the tax rate on people making over $100,000 a year was 73 percent, the federal government collected a little ov...
The fundamental confusion that makes income bracket data and individual income data seem mutually contradictory is the implicit assumption that people in particular income brackets at a given time are...
The initial wealth of a group and its time of arrival are obviously important, as many wealthy old families show, but the Jews arrived late and penniless in the nineteenth century and are now more af...
The intelligentsia in the media can decide what to emphasize, what to downplay and what to ignore entirely when it comes to race. These may be individual choices, rather than a conspiracy, but individ...
The next time you see a bum leaving drug needles in a park where children play or urinating in the street, you are seeing your tax dollars at work and the end result of the vision of the anointed.
The term liberal originally referred politically to those who wanted to liberate people—mainly from the oppressive power of government. That is what it still means in various European countries or in...
Top colleges turn out extraordinary graduates because they take in extraordinary freshmen. That tells very little about what happened in the intervening four years, except that it did not ruin these i...
What the British had earlier than many other peoples was a framework of law and government that facilitated economic transactions.
Teachers who pander to minority students by turning their courses into rap sessions and ethnic navel-gazing exercises capture their interest and allegiance.
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