Election Day: Painful Choices
Let's talk sense about the election. Nothing is to be gained by refusing to face the hard facts. What are those facts? ...
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The Left’s Vision
The political left keeps announcing, as if it is a new breakthrough discovery of theirs, that life is unfair. ...
Has Economics Failed?
Prices convey economic realities that do not change just because the government changes the prices. It is as if someone's fever was treated...
Immigration Controversies
People who came here a hundred years ago usually did so in order to fit within the framework of America and become Americans....
The Left and the Masses: Part III
What role is there for the masses in the vision of the left? One role is to provide a moral basis for the...
The Left and the Masses: Part II
It is never easy to tell what people’s motives are. But, when the political left proclaims their devotion to improving the lives of...
The Left and the Masses
The greatest moral claim of the political left is that they are for the masses in general and the poor in particular. That...
Dunbar High School After 100 Years
One hundred years ago, on October 2, 1916, a new public high school building for black youngsters was opened in Washington, D.C. and...
The Academic Curtain
There is no barbed wire around our campuses, nor armed guards keeping unwelcome ideas out. So there is no "iron curtain." But there...
“Favors” to Blacks
Many successful political careers have been built on giving blacks “favors” that look good on the surface but do lasting damage in the...
Election Year Books
Election year politics generates much rhetoric and confusion. And the media often adds its spin. But, fortunately, there are some books around that...
Racial Issues
Ordinarily, it is not a good idea to base how you vote on just one issue. But if black lives really matter, as...
Misleading Statistics
Mark Twain famously said that there were three kinds of lies — "lies, damned lies, and statistics." Since this is an election year,...
A Gem in Chicago
We have gotten so used to seeing college presidents and other academic "leaders" caving in to so many outrageous demands from little gangs...
Abstract Immigrants in an Abstract World
Why would a country with the world's largest Jewish population, outside of Israel, admit large numbers of immigrants from countries where hatred of...