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 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 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,...
What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
Where recyling takes place only in response to political pressures and exhortations, it need not meet the test of being incrementally worth its incremental costs. Accordingly, studies of government-im...
That does not distinguish Germans from Europeans in general—or from human beings in general, when it comes to vile or vicious things being said or done to any number of ethnic or other minorities in c...
Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
1:THE CRISIS: Although Chief Judge Bazelon said in 1960 that we desperately need all the help we can get from modern behavioral scientists69 in dealing with the criminal law, the cold facts suggest no...
A very distinct pattern has emerged repeatedly when policies favored by the anointed turn out to fail. This pattern typically has four stages: STAGE 1. THE CRISIS: Some situation exists, whose negativ...
As in the general society, fertility tends to be greatest where people are poorest: The rich get richer, and the poor have children. In
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...
Cultural differences are real, and cannot be talked away by using pejorative terms such as stereotypes or racism.
Electric cars may be fun at amusement parks, where they don’t have to go very far or very fast. But if the consuming public wanted electric cars for regular use, Detroit would be manufacturing them by...
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...
Government planning is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
Only in the light of this agenda does it make sense that so-called sex education should be advocated to take place throughout the school years—from kindergarten to college—when it could not possibly t...
President Obama keeps telling us that he is creating jobs. But more and more Americans have no jobs. The unemployment rate has declined slightly, but only because many people have stopped looking for...
Seldom do people think things through foolishly. More often, they do not bother to think things through at all, so that even brainy individuals can reach untenable conclusions because their brainpower...
Such are the ways of politics, where the crusade of the hour often blocks out everything else, at least until another crusade comes along and takes over the same monopoly of our minds.
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