All Posts Tagged With: "racial discrimination"
Debate Over 1964 Civil Rights Act
Update: My response essay, “Context-Keeping and Community Organizing,” is here. I will be participating in an online discussion about the appropriate libertarian position on the 1964 Civil Rights Act as part of the Cato Unbound series. David Bernstein of George Mason University Law School has kicked it off with his essay here. My response will [...]
16Jun2010 | Sheldon Richman | 4 comments | ContinuedRace & Liberty in America: The Essential Reader / Dred Scott’s Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom in America
Two recent books criticize racial discrimination from a classical-liberal perspective. The first, Race & Liberty in America, is an anthology edited by Jonathan Bean, a professor of history at Southern Illinois University. It includes dozens of selections, from 1776 to today, arguing eloquently for colorblind equality before the law and against slavery, Jim Crow, and [...]
20May2010 | Roger Clegg | 3 comments | ContinuedForgotten Lines
In the January 23, 2010, Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle, one of the clues was “Sassy reply to criticism.” The answer: “It’s a free country.” Why do I find this so striking? For two reasons. First, when I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, not many people around me considered that a sassy reply. [...]
20Apr2010 | David R. Henderson | 4 comments | ContinuedThat’s Not What We Meant to Do: Reform and Its Unintended Consequences in Twentieth-Century America by Steven M. Gillon
The art of economics, as Henry Hazlitt might put it, is to uncover the unanticipated effects of an act. In “That’s Not What We Meant to Do,” historian Steven M. Gillon details the history of five federal acts. He states, “My goal is fairly modest: to tell a few stories of how unintended consequences occur, to speculate about their significance, and to inspire more research and discussion about this often mentioned but infrequently explored theme.”
1Jul2001 | Philip Murray | 0 comments | ContinuedStorm Trooping to Equality
Politicians have long enjoyed promising to deliver equality to the American people. In a January speech, President Clinton announced that he is seeking a budget increase to hire more federal agents to penalize more companies for alleged inequalities in their wage and salary structures. Clinton declared, “We have an opportunity now, and an obligation, to [...]
1Jul1999 | James Bovard | 0 comments | ContinuedDiscrimination 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 | Walter E. Williams | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Moral Obligations of Workers
Mr. Tucker is director of research at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama. You hate your boss. Your hours are bad. Your salary is too low, and you haven’t been promoted in years. What’s a worker to do? If you can’t get your way, and just can’t take it anymore, you can quit. In [...]
1May1997 | Jeffrey A. Tucker | 1 comment | Continued-
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