Archive for Steven Yates
Why the War on Smoking Will Fail
Steven Yates has a Ph.D. in philosophy and recently received a master’s in health promotion and education. Everyone knows that smoking is a risky business, health-wise. Cigarettes have been linked to many diseases and conditions, from lung cancer and heart problems on down. One of the first bits of advice a doctor gives a patient [...]
1Jul2000 | Steven Yates | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Dangers of Growing Up Comfortable
Steven Yates, who has a Ph.D. in philosophy, is a writer and consultant living in Columbia, S.C. He is the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action (ICS Press, 1994) and numerous articles and reviews. We begin with a short of parable. There lives in a typical American suburb a fellow I [...]
1May2000 | Steven Yates | 2 comments | ContinuedEinstein’s Brain and the Egalitarian Mind
Steven Yates is the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong with Affirmative Action (ICS Press, 1994) and numerous articles and reviews. Late last spring a team of neuroscientists based at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, released the first detailed study of Albert Einstein’s brain, which had been preserved since his death in 1955. Einstein [...]
1Nov1999 | Steven Yates | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Menace of Multiculturalism by Alvin J. Schmidt
Praeger Publishers • 1997 • 199 pages + index • $39.95 Steven Yates, who teaches management ethics at Southern Wesleyan University, is an adjunct research fellow with the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty and the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action (San Francisco: ICS Press, 1994). In [...]
1Jan1998 | Steven Yates | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Central Economic Fallacy of the Century
Dr. Yates is adjunct research fellow with the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty and the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong with Affirmative Action (San Francisco: ICS Press, 1994). The late Murray N. Rothbard once published a major article titled “Ten Great Economic Myths.” Included on Rothbard’s hit list were [...]
1Nov1997 | Steven Yates | 0 comments | ContinuedStar Trek and Collectivism: The Case of the Borg
Dr. Yates is adjunct research fellow with the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty and the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action (San Francisco: ICS Press, 1994). Star Trek is easily the most popular science fiction epic of all time. Over the past three decades, the saga has [...]
1Apr1997 | Steven Yates | 3 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Generation X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Postmodern America by Peter Sacks
Open Court • 1996 • 201 pages + index • $16.95 paperback Dr. Yates, a former philosophy professor, is currently adjunct research fellow with the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. He is the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action (San Francisco: ICS Press, 1994). This is a [...]
1Feb1997 | Steven Yates | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Ending Affirmative Action: The Case for Colorblind Justice by Terry Eastland
Dr. Yates is Adjunct Research Fellow with the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty and the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action (ICS Press, 1994). This book is a tour de force. Terry Eastland looks at the history of civil rights in America and sees two incompatible visions [...]
1Jan1997 | Steven Yates | 1 comment | ContinuedGovernment Licensing: The Enemy of Employment
Dr. Yates is Bradley Visiting Fellow at the Center for Economic Personalism at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. He is the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong with Affirmative Action, published by ICS Press in 1994. Not long ago I found myself without a job. The experience offered me [...]
1Jul1996 | Steven Yates | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Fall of the Ivory Tower: Government Funding, Corruption, and the Bankrupting of Higher Education
This book picks up where Dinesh D’Souza leaves off. Not only has political correctness reached epidemic proportions in higher education, but so have mismanagement, waste, and corruption. The cause: a long history of expanding government involvement which has created a class of dependents whose lust for easy money is matched only by their irresponsibility. Roche [...]
1Jan1995 | Steven Yates | 1 comment | ContinuedRights Versus Entitlements
Dr. Yates is a visiting assistant professor, department of philosophy, University of South Carolina, Academic Year 1993-94; Salvatori Fellow, The Heritage Foundation, 1992-94; and author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action (San Francisco: ICS Press, 1994) and recent articles and reviews in Public Affairs Quarterly, Social Sciences Quarterly, Reason Papers, IPI Insights, [...]
1Sep1994 | Steven Yates | 4 comments | ContinuedThe Ethics of Affirmative Action
Dr. Yates was a visiting philosophy professor at the University of South Carolina last year. He is a Salvatori Fellow at The Heritage Foundation and an Adjunct Research Scholar at the Institute for Policy Innovation. He is also the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action (San Francisco: ICS Press, 1994). Affirmative [...]
1Jul1994 | Steven Yates | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: Unfinished Business: A Civil Rights Strategy For Americas Third Century by Clint Bolick
Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 177 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94108 * 1990 • 159 pages • $24.95 cloth, $12.95 paper One cannot close the cover of this new book by the author of Changing Course: Civil Rights at the Crossroads (Transaction, 1988) without a disquieting sense of how fragile a thing economic [...]
1May1991 | Steven Yates | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Invisible Victims: White Males And The Crisis Of Affirmative Action by Frederick R. Lynch
Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Box 5007, Westport, CT 06881 • 1989 • 237 pages • $37.95 cloth Has “affirmative action” brought us closer to an equal opportunity society? Or has it limited opportunities for younger white males by reverse discrimination? Is it compatible with the principles of a free society—or does it run [...]
1Jan1991 | Steven Yates | 1 comment | ContinuedAffirmative Action: The New Road to Serfdom
Dr. Yates is a professor of philosophy at Auburn University. 1. Introduction For over 20 years, policies calling for “affirmative action” for women and minorities have been part of American political life, and a source of enormous controversy. Advocates say the policies are morally justified, and necessary for the continued advancement of women and minorities [...]
1Dec1990 | Steven Yates | 3 comments | ContinuedArt, Censorship, and Markets
Steven Yates earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Georgia in 1987. He has since taught philosophy at Clemson University and Auburn University and was awarded a research fellowship by the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. He will be joining the faculty at Wofford College early this year. The art [...]
1Mar1990 | Steven Yates | 1 comment | Continued-
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