All Posts Tagged With: "affirmative action"
Book 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 | ContinuedPrivate Prejudice, Private Remedy
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a nationally syndicated columnist. He is the author and editor of several books, including The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology (Transaction). There may be no more politically contentious issue than race. The federal government has created a vast racial spoils system that often [...]
1Jul1996 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedThe New Color Line: How Quotas and Privilege Destroy Democracy
Dr. Peterson, an adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation, is the Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of Business Philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina. Item: The O. J. Simpson criminal trial verdict brings gasps and cheers. Polls show whites believe “O. J.” to be guilty by about 75 percent while blacks concur with the verdict [...]
1Jun1996 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedShake-Down: How the Government Screws You From A to Z
Dr. Peterson, an adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation, is Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of Business Philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina. Item: A federal program routinely subsidizes welfare families living in oceanfront apartments in upscale La Jolla, California. Item: The Food and Drug Administration refuses to approve a machine that gives CPR to [...]
1Apr1996 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedAffirmative Action
In the strange world of politics and power, one agency of government inflicts economic harm on the public, another seeks to alleviate it. One raises the costs of construction through labor laws or zoning restrictions, another seeks to offset the raises through construction grants, low-interest loans, and subsidized rents. Federal legislation erects employment barriers for [...]
1Jun1995 | Hans F. Sennholz | 0 comments | ContinuedCivil Wrongs: What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action
“Sensitive” is the word people use to describe political rows over civil rights, an issue that mixes economics, social policy, and race. We know what we’re supposed to think: the “civil-rights struggle” was the most heroic political movement in American history. We are not, however, supposed to notice its catastrophic results: race relations are worse [...]
1Jun1995 | Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr | 0 comments | Continued-
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