The reality of an historic struggle for civil rights has degenerated into the hustling rhetoric of Newspeak. Equal opportunity now means preferential treatment. Voting rights now include preferential...
The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about social justice all you want. But what death...
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 government is indeed an institution, but the market is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his o...
The United States as a whole is larger than the Roman Empire at its greatest expansion.
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...
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.
Japan, newly emerging on the world scene in the late nineteenth century, sought its science and engineering in Scotland.
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.
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.
Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies. Its fundamental concern is with the material standard of living of society as a whole and how that is affected by pa...
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.
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...
A Yoruba governor, defeated through vote fraud, was later found by a court to have won in fact by a million votes.