All Posts Tagged With: "discrimination"

More 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 | | 3 comments | Continued

Whole Language: Emancipatory Pedagogy or Socialist Nonsense?

Patrick Groff is professor of education emeritus at San Diego State University. The “whole language” method of reading instruction is a highly popular, yet experimentally discredited teaching innovation. The educational principle that governs it falsely states that students best learn to read in the same informal, natural manner they previously learned to speak as preschoolers. [...]

1Jul2000 | | 1 comment | Continued

The ILO’s Strange Use of Words

Last June the International Labor Organization (ILO) put forth its “Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.” U.S. Labor Secretary Alexis Herman asserted that the declaration is “a big step forward for the ILO and its members as we enter the 21st century.” John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, called it “an historic breakthrough [...]

1Feb1999 | | 0 comments | Continued

Capitalism: 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 | | 3 comments | Continued

Individualist Feminism: The Lost Tradition

Women are, and should be treated as, the equals of men. For many, that sentiment forms the core of feminist theory and policy. But historically, there has been substantial disagreement within the feminist movement over the meaning of the term equality. Does it mean: equality under existing laws; equality under laws more just than existing [...]

1Aug1998 | | 1 comment | Continued

Foolish Inconsistencies

When a domestic steel producer solemnly croons for the television cameras about how high tariffs on imported steel are good for the American economy, you can be sure that he is not really interested in the well-being of his fellow citizens. He is undoubtedly a swindler motivated by no ideal more elevated than fattening his [...]

1Jun1998 | | 0 comments | Continued

Are Women Being Victimized by the Market?

One of the many false but frequent criticisms of the marketplace is that it discriminates against women. It goes like this: if the market is fair, why do women own fewer businesses and earn less than men for doing the same work? Groups organized for the purpose of getting government to intervene insist that women [...]

1Apr1998 | | 0 comments | Continued

Discrimination and Liberty

(Editor’s Note: We herewith inaugurate a new monthly feature: The Pursuit of Happiness. Its regular contributors will be Walter Williams, one of the most prominent defenders of liberty today, and Charles Baird, an economist specializing in the freedom of workers. Guest contributors will also occupy this space.) How much should we care if people discriminate? [...]

1Apr1998 | | 1 comment | Continued

Affirmative Action: Institutionalized Inequality

Mr. Mulcahy is a student and Dr. Block a former professor of economics at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Dr. Block is currently chairman of the department of economics at the University of Central Arkansas. In 1961 President John F. Kennedy established a program of “affirmative action” with the declaration of [...]

1Oct1997 | | 4 comments | Continued

Insurance Redlining and Government Intervention

Gary Wolfram is George Munson Professor of Political Economy at Hillsdale College in Michigan. Redlining has been a topic of public policy debate and action for several years. Figuring most prominently in the provision of real estate and mortgage services, it has now spilled over into the provision of insurance. Unfortunately, policy recommendations have generally [...]

1Jun1997 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Liability Lottery: Politics by Other Means

Mr. Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. Liability law, no less than war, has become a continuation of politics by other means. When defeated at the ballot box, interest [...]

1Jun1997 | | 0 comments | Continued

Dying for a Pizza

Mr. Reiland is associate professor of economics at Robert Morris College in Pittsburgh. It started as more than 50 people were being killed in Los Angeles by rioters who didn’t agree with the verdict in the Rodney King case. That same night, while the rest of us were watching the mayhem on television, Carl Truss [...]

1Mar1997 | | 1 comment | Continued

Book Review: Backfire by Bob Zelnick and The Affirmative Action Fraud by Clint Bolick

Backfire by Bob Zelnick Regnery • 1996 • 416 pages • $27.50 The Affirmative Action Fraud by Clint Bolick Cato Institute • 1996 • x + 170 pages • $10.95 paperback Professor Levin teaches in the Department of Philosophy at City College and The Graduate Center of The City University, New York, New York. Despite [...]

1Mar1997 | | 1 comment | Continued

The Socialist Roots of Modern Anti-Semitism

Dr. Cowen teaches economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Auschwitz meant that six million Jews were killed, and thrown on the waste-heap of Europe, for what they were considered: money-Jews. Finance capital and the banks, the hard core of the system of imperialism and capitalism, had turned the hatred of men against money [...]

1Jan1997 | | 0 comments | Continued

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 | | 1 comment | Continued

Private 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 | | 0 comments | Continued

Civil Rights Socialism

Mr. Rockwell is president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. The Fabian Society of Britain believed in three central doctrines of political economy. First, every country must create its own form of socialism. Second, socialism imposed slowly is more permanent than the revolutionary form. and third, socialism is not likely to succeed [...]

1May1996 | | 1 comment | Continued
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