All Posts Tagged With: "black Americans"
Black Rednecks and White Liberals
In a just world Thomas Sowell would win the Nobel Prize in economics. Over several decades he has applied his exceptional skills as an economist to an array of interdisciplinary studies focusing on race, culture, and politics. And in doing so he has challenged and undermined many of the dominant ideological myths of our time. [...]
13Jul2010 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedWhat’s Wrong with Reparations for Slavery
There has been much debate recently about reparations for slavery. According to its proponents, the federal government should award Americans of African descent financial damages solely because slavery, as an institution, existed in the United States from the founding until almost a century later. Three principal arguments are offered: (1) The legacy of slavery has [...]
30Jun2010 | Stefan Spath | 16 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – December 2006
- The Ethics of the Market
by John Meadowcroft Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
- Peddling Panaceas: Popular Economists _in the New Deal Era
by Gary Dean Best Reviewed by Burton Folsom, Jr
- Philosophers of Capitalism: _Menger, Mises, Rand, and Beyond
by Edward W. Younkins Reviewed by Aeon J. Skoble
- Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in _Black America
by John McWhorter Reviewed by George C. Leef
The Liberty Tradition Among Black Americans
Slavery and free institutions can never live peaceably together,” Frederick Douglass observed. “Liberty . . . must either overthrow slavery, or be itself overthrown by slavery.” Douglass, black America’s most renowned spokesman, made this argument during the Civil War. But what about after the war? Was it proper for the government afterward to intervene and [...]
1May2005 | Burton W. Folsom Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedAndrew Johnson and the Constitution
Before 1998 “Andrew Johnson” used to be the answer to the question “Who was the only U.S. president to be impeached?” But Andrew Johnson, the self-educated tailor, deserves to be remembered more for his ideas, especially his defense of the Constitution in a troubled time. Johnson was born in poverty in North Carolina in 1808 [...]
1Sep2003 | Burton W. Folsom Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedMore Free Than Ever?
In a November 2002 Washington Times column titled “Americans Enjoy More Freedom Today Than Ever,” Jonah Goldberg stated, “Today, we worry desperately about our personal and political freedom even though we are more free today than at any time in our history.” Attempts to measure freedom are inherently difficult because we must weight our freedoms [...]
1Mar2003 | David R. Henderson | 0 comments | ContinuedBlack Innovators and Entrepreneurs Under Capitalism
Andrew Bernstein teaches philosophy at Pace University and is working on a book, The Capitalist Manifesto. The historical injustices against black Americans have been numerous and prolonged. But despite slavery, racism, and Jim Crow laws, many blacks have achieved an exceptionally high level of accomplishment in the United States. It is yet another injustice that [...]
1Oct2001 | Andrew Bernstein | 3 comments | ContinuedLosing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America by John H. McWhorter
Free Press · 2000 · 285 pages · $24.00 Reviewed by Ward Connerly Sisters Venus and Serena Williams are two of the top women’s tennis players in the world. Understandably, they avoid entering the same tournaments. At the major tournaments, however, they can’t avoid it. At a recent tournament in Indian Wells, California, Venus and [...]
1Aug2001 | Ward Connerly | 1 comment | ContinuedCapitalism: Discrimination’s Implacable Enemy
John Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation, a nonprofit think tank in North Carolina, and the author of The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good (Free Press), from which this article is adapted. Do racial minorities, women, and other groups need the government to protect them against prejudice and discrimination? To hear [...]
1Aug1998 | John Hood | 2 comments | ContinuedLiberal Racism
Brad Stetson is director of The David Institute, a social group in Tustin, California. He is coauthor of Challenging the Civil Rights Establishment (Praeger, 1993) and co-editor of Black and Right: The Bold New Voice of Black Conservatives in America (Praeger, 1997). Martin Luther King, Jr., once said, “It is not a sign of weakness, [...]
1Aug1998 | Brad Stetson | 0 comments | ContinuedAssimilation, American Style by Peter D. Salins
Basic Books • 1996 • 272 pages • $26.00 Rita Simon teaches in the department of justice, law and society, School of Public Affairs at American University, Washington, D.C. Author Peter Salins says up front that he had two major reasons for writing Assimilation, American Style. First, to tell about the wonderful contributions immigrants have [...]
1Mar1998 | Rita J. Simon | 2 comments | Continued-
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