Zitelmann offers a convincing and engaging prescription of how we can contend with the Jacobin and Guardian journalists who seem to derive damaging and dangerous conclusions from prejudices supported by nothing but empty air.
CULTURE
The American Spirit of Liberty Against Slavery and Racism
Contrary to, the ideological propaganda and rhetoric of the Race Marxists and Identity Politics Warriors, America is not and has not been an irredeemable captive of racism as asserted to have begun with the country’s first arrival of slaves in 1619.
Confederate Monuments: The Problem With Politically Correct History
Where does this viewing of history through the prism of modern-day feelings end?
Thomas Sowell’s New Book: Charter Schools and Their Enemies
The education establishment, having the nation’s most powerful labor union, has the ears of political leaders. They see a huge loss potential if more parents are able to opt out of poorly achieving public schools.
Reason, Freedom & Science: July Fourth Celebrates America’s and the West’s Core Values
There are three fundamental respects in which Western culture is objectively the best.
Thomas Sowell: An Underappreciated American Scholar
Thomas Sowell is one of the greatest economist-philosophers of our age, and I am proud to say that he is one of my best friends.
Slavery Did Not Enrich Americans
Slavery was not necessary for cotton, and cotton was not necessary for industrialization. Had chattel slavery never taken hold in the United States, we would very likely be richer than we are today.
‘Uncle Tom,’ The Movie
The film simply asks: “Why is there no respectful disagreement in the black community? Why are great black thinkers like Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams and Shelby Steele ignored or marginalized by the black and mainstream media?”
What Does It Mean To Be American?
Are we individual human beings who may or may not have by the accidents of birth particular racial and biological characteristics, or do we have certain racial and biological characteristics that determine and define who we are and how we should view ourselves in relation to others?
Appreciating Black History
Government should do its job of protecting constitutional rights. After that, black people should be simply left alone as opposed to being smothered by the paternalism inspired by white guilt.
Thomas Sowell at 90: Understanding Race and Culture Around the World
Now, at the age of 90, Thomas Sowell continues to offer us understanding and insight into the attitudes and institutions that can bring all people greater peace and prosperity, as well as human liberty.
How To Be Profitable and Moral: Rationality Applied to Business Ethics for The 21st Century
A Review of Jaana Woiceshyn’s “How To Be Profitable and Moral”
Class Warfare Will Worsen the Pandemic
Social envy enables scapegoating, or assigning blame to an out-group for societal problems.
What The Protests Are Protesting
The “protests” are not against the death of George Floyd. His connection is no greater than the length of the fuse needed to set off a vast accumulation of explosive hatred for the United States, the capitalist economic system, and rationality itself.
Some Facts Worth Knowing
If the U.S. “poor” were a nation, then it would be one of the world’s richest.
Capitalism and History of the Industrial Revolution: The Factory System of the Early 19th Century
There is a tendency to exaggerate the “evils” which of the factory system and factory legislation was not essential to the ultimate disappearance of those “evils.” Conditions which modern standards would condemn were then common to the community as a whole.
School Inc.: Market Innovation Can Save American Education
In Korea, top teachers make millions.
Insane News Tidbits
The biggest casualty from the COVID-19 pandemic has nothing to do with the disease. It’s the power we’ve given to politicians and bureaucrats.
The Guns of August: A Look Back at the Financial Shock of the Great War
The crisis of 2020 has invited a lot of comparisons to the past, particularly the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 and to various war efforts. For those concerned with banking, public finance and monetary policy, the summer of 1914 might be a more appropriate candidate.
Child of Freedom, Parent of Prosperity: Matt Ridley’s “How Innovation Works”
Hopefully, How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom will inspire others to champion the planting of the seeds of innovation while protecting the soil of freedom that this precious and most delicate of flowers – that “child of freedom and parent of prosperity” — thrives on.
Rotten Education Isn’t Preordained
Poor performance is often blamed on finances; however, the poorest performing schools have the highest per-pupil spending.
Karl Marx and the Communist Revolution
Marx’s critique of capitalism and capitalist society has shaped much of the social thinking in Western countries that led to the welfare state and extensive government intervention into economic affairs.
The Nation’s Education Report Card
Today, unfortunately, we’ve replaced practices that work with practices that sound good and caring, and we’re witnessing the results.
The Fallacy of “We”
The “we fallacy” is ubiquitous, especially among professors, politicians, policy wonks, and pundits. The fallacy of “we” is a form of the fallacy argumentum ad populum or “appeal to the people,” to “popular opinion.”
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