All Posts Tagged With: "discrimination"
The Ominous Expansion of Class-Action Suits: Walmart v. Dukes
In the largest class-action lawsuit in American history, Walmart v. Dukes, Walmart stands accused of systematically discriminating against as many as 1.5 million women in wages and promotions. The Supreme Court has agreed to a limited review, judging solely whether class-action certification was justified. At stake are billions of dollars and the creation of a [...]
21Apr2011 | Wendy McElroy | 6 comments | ContinuedMarkets and the Gender Wage Gap
Markets will pay people for the value they produce, whatever the source of that value.
17Mar2011 | Steven Horwitz | 4 comments | ContinuedGovernment and Conflict
Human differences such as race, ethnicity, religion, and language have always been sources of conflict. Despite arguments to minimize the importance of these differences, people still exhibit preferences in these areas when choosing a spouse, friend, business partner, employee, neighborhood, and other associations. People do not associate randomly. Efforts to deny such assortative behavior in [...]
22Dec2010 | Walter E. Williams | 4 comments | ContinuedThe Ominous Expansion of Class-Action Suits
At stake are billions of dollars and the creation of a new standard for certifying class-action lawsuits.
7Dec2010 | Wendy McElroy | 13 comments | ContinuedOpposing the Civil Rights Act Means Opposing Civil Rights?
Just after winning his Republican primary in May, Rand Paul got himself into a political pickle over his views on property rights and the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Having reluctantly discussed concerns about antidiscrimination laws with the Louisville Courier-Journal and NPR, Paul made his now-notorious appearance on the Rachel Maddow Show, where Maddow grilled him [...]
25Aug2010 | Charles Johnson | 16 comments | ContinuedBlack 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 | ContinuedYou Can’t Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Anti-Discrimination Laws
The chiseling away of constitutional limits on government power is a topic familiar to readers of these pages. For a long time the First Amendment’s prohibition against laws that infringe freedom of speech remained relatively untouched by people who would like to use state power to silence their opponents. But as David Bernstein, a George [...]
7Jul2010 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | ContinuedHow Free Markets Break Down Discrimination
One of my favorite lines in the classic movie The Magnificent Seven comes when a traveling salesman and his partner offer to pay the local undertaker to haul a dead Indian to boot hill. The undertaker refuses. He’d like to oblige, he explains, but the townsfolk are so prejudiced against burying Indians alongside whites that [...]
1Apr2008 | David R. Henderson | 3 comments | ContinuedLudwig von Mises and the Vienna of His Time – Part II
From the time of World War I, Ludwig von Mises’s writings expressed the classical-liberal cosmopolitan conception of man, society, and freedom. Throughout the interwar period his works on the general principles of the liberal market order, the dangerous dead end to which socialist society would lead, and the contradictions and corrupting influences of economic interventionism [...]
1Apr2005 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedGrutter v. Bollinger: A Constitutional Embarrassment
“All animals are created equal—but some are more equal than others.” So goes the crucial line in George Orwell’s classic Animal Farm. The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Grutter v. Bollinger makes one think of that line, since it gives constitutional approval to the policies used at many colleges and universities that group applicants by [...]
1Nov2003 | George C. Leef | 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 | ContinuedRace, Inequality, and the Market
Not long ago I found myself in a debate with colleagues about the economic status of black Americans vis-à-vis whites. Naturally, their presumption was against the free market. The logic, such as it was, ran as follows: (1) we live under a market system (more or less); (2) in a variety of areas blacks have [...]
1Oct2002 | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedOnly One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal
Most black people believe that history demonstrates the necessity of labor-market regulations on their behalf. The message of this book is that the one place of redress blacks (and other minorities) had against discriminatory state and federal economic regulations was the court system guided by the principles of what came to be called, and later [...]
1Sep2002 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedFree Speech and the Politics of Identity by David A. J. Richards
Oxford University Press • 2000 • $65.00 • 296 pages It’s no surprise that free speech is under siege today—those in power always try to suppress criticism. What is surprising is that the attackers now come from the traditional defenders of free speech, mainstream academics. Most colleges have “politically correct” speech codes that threaten serious [...]
1May2001 | George W. Dent | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Secret Hate in Hate Crimes
Contributing editor Lowell Ponte is a national radio talk show host and a columnist for David Horowitz’s FrontPageMag.com. A variety of recent laws and policies, such as university “speech codes,” have been imposed with the proclaimed goal of prohibiting “hate.” They have set forth punishments for acts and crimes motivated by hatred based on a [...]
1Feb2001 | Lowell Ponte | 4 comments | ContinuedA Cure Worse Than The Disease: Fighting Discrimination Through Government Control
“America’s constant curse.” So the British weekly The Economist brands racism long after the appearance of “affirmative action,” the official policy unleashed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and designed to “correct” historical injustices by instituting preferences for members of certain “protected classes.” This law and its legal embellishments blithely ignore the First Amendment [...]
1Dec2000 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedMore Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well
Statist “liberals,” take cover. Your sacred cows are fair game in this hard-hitting work by a witty, insightful, and even radical hunter of wrongheaded conventional wisdom somehow mesmerizing the mainline media, clergy, Congress, academe, and other purveyors of mulish political correctness. Did I say Congress? Well, hear the author, professor of economics at George Mason [...]
1Aug2000 | William H. Peterson | 3 comments | Continued-
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