All Posts Tagged With: "racism"
Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America by John H. McWhorter
Free Press · 2000 · 285 pages · $24.00 Reviewed by Ward Connerly Sisters Venus and Serena Williams are two of the top women’s tennis players in the world. Understandably, they avoid entering the same tournaments. At the major tournaments, however, they can’t avoid it. At a recent tournament in Indian Wells, California, Venus and [...]
1Aug2001 | Ward Connerly | 1 comment | ContinuedRacial Profiling
Former President Clinton called for a national crackdown on racial profiling and ordered federal law-enforcement authorities to begin an investigation. While running for president Al Gore promised the NAACP that if elected, eliminating racial profiling by the nation’s police departments would be a top priority.
1Apr2001 | Walter E. Williams | 29 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 | ContinuedProgress in Pain Relief
“Among the remedies which it has pleased the Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.” —Thomas Sydenham, M.D. (1680) The authors of the textbook of pharmacology used when I was a medical student (during World War II) stated: “The opium alkaloids have no [...]
1Sep2000 | Thomas Szasz | 0 comments | ContinuedLosing Our Language: How Multicultural Classroom Instruction Is Undermining Our Children’s Ability to Read, Write, and Reason by Sandra Stotsky
Free Press • 1999 • 307 pages • $26.00 Sandra Stotsky, a researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has for over 20 years studied the cognitive and political (she prefers “civic”) consequences of contemporary educational fads, as well as their historical predecessors. Losing Our Language argues that during the past 30 years the [...]
1Apr2000 | Nicholas Stix | 0 comments | Continued150 Years and Still Dismal!
David Levy is a professor of economics at George Mason University. In December 1849 Thomas Carlyle published “Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question” in the London monthly Fraser’s Magazine. In it he labeled the economics of his contemporaries “the dismal science.” In the next issue of Fraser’s, the greatest British economist of that era, John [...]
1Mar2000 | David M. Levy | 5 comments | ContinuedToward the Renewal of Civilization: Political Order and Culture
To explore the relationship between politics and culture with an eye toward the “renewal of civilization” is a tall order for one volume. And yet the contributors to this collection do an admirable job of examining many facets of the intersection between political-cultural trends and what most of these authors regard as the decline of [...]
1Dec1999 | Robert A. Sirico CSP | 0 comments | ContinuedLiberal Racism
Brad Stetson is director of The David Institute, a social group in Tustin, California. He is coauthor of Challenging the Civil Rights Establishment (Praeger, 1993) and co-editor of Black and Right: The Bold New Voice of Black Conservatives in America (Praeger, 1997). Martin Luther King, Jr., once said, “It is not a sign of weakness, [...]
1Aug1998 | Brad Stetson | 0 comments | ContinuedNot Out of Africa by Mary Lefkowitz and Out of America by Keith B. Richburg
Not Out of Africa by Mary Lefkowitz Basic Books • 1996 • xvii + 222 pages • $24.00 Out of America by Keith B. Richburg Basic Books • 1997 • xiv + 257 pages • $24.00 Laurence Vance is an instructor at Pensacola Bible Institute and a freelance writer living in Pensacola, Florida. Has everything [...]
1Mar1998 | Laurence M. Vance | 1 comment | ContinuedPick a Better Country by Ken Hamblin
The story is told that Ludwig von Mises was once asked, "Do you mean to say that
the government should have done nothing during the Great Depression?" Mises
responded, "I mean to say it should have started doing nothing long before
that." I hope the story is not apocryphal, because it perfectly sums up the
government’s proper role in managing the economy: none.
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 | Tyler Cowen | 0 comments | ContinuedDo the Right Thing
Dr. Robbins is professor of political philosophy and Director of The Freedom School at the College of the Southwest in Hobbs, New Mexico. Dr. Walter Williams, Chairman of the Department of Economics at George Mason University in Virginia, a syndicated columnist for the past 15 years, has collected his best newspaper columns from 1990 to [...]
1Jun1996 | John W. Robbins | 1 comment | ContinuedThe New Color Line: How Quotas and Privilege Destroy Democracy
Dr. Peterson, an adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation, is the Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of Business Philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina. Item: The O. J. Simpson criminal trial verdict brings gasps and cheers. Polls show whites believe “O. J.” to be guilty by about 75 percent while blacks concur with the verdict [...]
1Jun1996 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Ethics of War: Hiroshima and Nagasaki After 50 Years
Mr. Pavlik is director of The Freeman Op-Ed Program at The Foundation for Economic Education. He is editor of Forgotten Lessons: Selected Essays of John T. Flynn, to be published by FEE next month. The first use of an atomic bomb in warfare took place on August 6, 1945. The weapon was dropped on the [...]
1Sep1995 | Gregory P. Pavlik | 3 comments | ContinuedAffirmative Action
In the strange world of politics and power, one agency of government inflicts economic harm on the public, another seeks to alleviate it. One raises the costs of construction through labor laws or zoning restrictions, another seeks to offset the raises through construction grants, low-interest loans, and subsidized rents. Federal legislation erects employment barriers for [...]
1Jun1995 | Hans F. Sennholz | 0 comments | Continued-
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