All Posts Tagged With: "diversity"
Diversity, Ends, and Rules
The liberal order is the only way to achieve a society in which diverse preferences, values, and ends are truly respected.
10Feb2011 | Steven Horwitz | 8 comments | ContinuedCultural Competence and Your Child
A buzz term is appearing with increased frequency in the literature and programs surrounding education at both the public-school and university levels: cultural competence. Parents would do well to ask, “What is it, and how could it affect my children?” The term “cultural competence” first arose in connection with health care, where a standard definition is: [...]
1Sep2007 | Wendy McElroy | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
By Walter Benn Michaels Reviewed by George C. Leef
1Apr2007 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedJane Jacobs (1916-2006)
Through nearly a dozen books, Jane Jacobs made an indelible contribution to our understanding of what makes cities vibrant and what makes them dull. She struck heroic blows in defense of the underlying order of cities and against the pretensions of social engineering. Alas,she died April 25 at age 89.
1Jun2006 | Sheldon Richman | 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 | ContinuedBook Reviews – July 2003
Diversity: The Invention of a Concept by Peter Wood Encounter Books • 2003 • 308 pages • $24.95 Reviewed by George C. Leef Anthropologists study the origins and development of human customs and beliefs. Often that takes them to places like New Guinea, but anthropologist Peter Wood did not need immunizations or a passport to write this remarkable book. It examines [...]
1Jul2003 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Market Makes Diversity Worth Celebrating
The mantra on university campuses today is “celebrating diversity.” There are good reasons to encourage a greater appreciation of the rich diversity in the world. We are increasingly part of a global community; it’s important that we interact cooperatively with people of diverse backgrounds, understandings, skills, and motivations.
1Jan2002 | Dwight R. Lee | 1 comment | 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 Legal Assault on Competence and Honesty
In October 1993, when Northwest Airlines announced that it had agreed to rehire pilot Norman Prouse as a ground trainer, a company spokesman acknowledged that “some Northwest employees might be bitter.” The reason: three years earlier, Mr. Prouse, after an all-night drinking binge with the two members of his flying crew, had flown a plane [...]
1Oct1997 | David R. Henderson | 1 comment | 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 | ContinuedFallacies of Uncritical Multiculturalism
Dr. Machan teaches Philosophy at Auburn University, Alabama. Some of the trends in our country are new only if you have very little knowledge of human history. Such is the case with the current multiculturalism craze on our college and university campuses. The idea is that no culture is better than any other, so it [...]
1Mar1996 | Tibor R. Machan | 2 comments | Continued-
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