All Posts Tagged With: "racism"
Eugenics: Progressivism’s Ultimate Social Engineering
According to the received account of the Progressive Era, an enlightened government swept in and regulated markets for goods, labor, and capital, thereby protecting the hapless masses from the vicissitudes of unrestrained laissez-faire capitalism. The Progressives had faith that experts would rise above self-interest and implement wise plans to create a great society. The resulting [...]
21Sep2011 | and Art Carden | 21 comments | ContinuedDrug Decriminalization Has Failed?
Michael Gerson, former speechwriter for President George W. Bush and now a columnist for the Washington Post, has denounced libertarianism as “morally empty,” “anti-government,” “a scandal,” “an idealism that strangles mercy,” guilty of “selfishness,” “rigid ideology,” and “rigorous ideological coldness.” (He’s starting to repeat himself.) In his May 9 column, “Ron Paul’s Land of Second-Rate [...]
24Aug2011 | David Boaz | 7 comments | ContinuedIn Defense of the Huddled Masses
In April Arizona attracted national attention when it enacted a strict anti-immigration law, SB1070, which authorizes police having “lawful contact” with a person who arouses “reasonable suspicion” that he is an illegal alien to make a “reasonable attempt . . . to determine the immigration status of the person.” The law is intended to make [...]
25Aug2010 | Aeon J. Skoble | 21 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 | ContinuedRacism and Libertarianism
At FreedomFest last month I spoke on racism and libertarianism. My remarks can be downloaded here.
5Aug2010 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | 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 | 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 | ContinuedDebate 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 | ContinuedLibertarianism = Anti-racism
Rand Paul’s comments regarding the federal ban on racial discrimination in public accommodations have brought the libertarian position on civil rights to public attention.
28May2010 | Sheldon Richman | 29 comments | ContinuedCivil Rights and the Libertarian Principle
My piece in today’s Christian Science Monitor is here.
26May2010 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedWhy? Why? Why?
Why is it not enough to oppose racial discrimination and support peaceful social movements against it? Why must one also endorse using government force against what is, after all, nonviolent behavior? (Not all loathsome behavior is violent.) Is endorsement of State force necessary to show one’s bona fides as a humane person? If so, that [...]
23May2010 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Vanity of the Philosopher: From Equality to Hierarchy in Post-Classical Economics
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1Apr2007 | Gene Callahan | 1 comment | ContinuedMinimum Wage, Maximum Folly
The big Associated Press story for last October 11 was that “More than 650 economists, including five winners of the Nobel Prize for economics, called Wednesday for an increase in the minimum wage, saying the value of the last increase, in 1997, has been ‘fully eroded.’ ” Among these economists were Nobel laureates such as [...]
1Mar2007 | Walter E. Williams | 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 | 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 | ContinuedThe Sorry Record of Foreign Aid in Africa
For almost half a century the countries of Africa have been awash in aid. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been given to African governments. More billions were lent to these same governments. Countless tons of food have inundated the continent, and swarms of consultants, experts, and administrators have descended to solve Africa’s problems.
1Aug2001 | James Peron | 5 comments | Continued-
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