Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
Piketty’s crucial misstep is verbally converting a fluid process over time into a rigid structure, with a more or less permanent top one percent living isolated from the rest of society that is suppos...
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.
It is a classic example of arguing against a caricature instead of confronting the argument actually made. While
In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
Government planning is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
Galling as it may be to be helpless to redress the crying injustices of the past, symbolic expiation in the present can only create new injustices among the living and new problems for the future, whe...
Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
Evidence is fact that discriminates between one theory and another. Facts do not „speak for themselves. they speak for or against competing theories. Theories can be devastated by facts but they can n...
Everyone may be called comrade, but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
Don't you get tired of seeing so many non-conformists with the same non-conformist look?
Cultural differences are real, and cannot be talked away by using pejorative terms such as stereotypes or racism.
But that such an administration could be elected in the first place, headed by a man whose only qualifications to be President of the United States at a dangerous time in the history of the world were...
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.
. ideology. . . is an instrument of power; a defense mechanism against information; a pretext for eluding moral constraints in doing or approving evil with a clean conscience; and finally, a way of ba...
While the Obama administration in Washington is not the root cause of the ominous dangers that face this country, at home and abroad, it is the embodiment, the personification and the culmination of d...
There cannot be a law-abiding society if no one knows in advance what law they are to abide by, but must wait for judges to create ex post facto legal rulings based on evolving standards rather than k...
The virtually unanimous support of bilingualism among Hispanic activists, leaders and spokesmen—in contrast to Hispanic parents—is understandable only in terms of the self-interest of those activists,...
The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.