Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a clever and pleasant diversion about having faith that the good is possible.
CULTURE
A nation’s culture is the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men, which their fellow-citizens have accepted in whole or in part, and which have influenced the nation’s way of life. Since a culture is a complex battleground of different ideas and influences, to speak of a ‘culture’ is to speak only of the dominant ideas, always allowing for the existence of dissenters and exceptions. — AYN RAND
Squandered Resources on College Education
What goes on at many colleges adds to the argument that college for many is a waste of resources.
Thomas Sowell’s Christmas Gift Recommendations
Thought-provoking books on current events or on history.
Corporate Donations Increase Academic Freedom and Diversity in American Colleges
The real untold story is that some college professors want to limit intellectual diversity, deny competition in the realm of ideas, and prohibit students from learning certain ideas.
Socialism: An Ideology of Death and Destruction
The attempt to establish a comprehensive socialist system in many parts of the world over the last one hundred years has been one of the cruelest and most brutal episodes in human history.
America’s Colleges: Citadels of Intolerance
There is no compelling reason for either parents or donors to keep shelling out money to colleges and universities where intolerant professors and student activists impose their ideology on academic institutions
When The Supreme Court Stopped FDR’s Economic Fascism in America
On May 27, 1935, in a unanimous decision the nine members of the Supreme Court said there were constitutional limits beyond which the federal government could not go in claiming the right to regulate the economic affairs of the citizenry. It was a glorious day in American judicial history and is worth remembering.
Random Thoughts for November 2015
Random thoughts on the passing scene…
America’s Education Disaster
Walter Williams on the shocking decline in college academic standards.
The Ideas Behind The Islamist (Jihadist) Movement
Understanding the Jihadists.
How to Defend Freedom of Speech in the Face of Religious Attacks
Charlie Hebdo, the West and the Need to Ridicule Religion.
Walter Williams on The American Founding Fathers and Slavery
What distinguishes the West, namely Britain and the U.S., from other nations are the extraordinary measures they took to abolish slavery.
Dealing with Violent Students in Schools
It would be wonderful if we could develop ways to educate all students, despite whatever kinds of attitudes and behavior they had. But how many generations of other youngsters are we prepared to sacrifice to this hope that has never yet been fulfilled?
What Selfishness Requires: Lessons from Volkswagen
Had VW executive grasped the principle of honesty and chosen to follow it, the company’s current mess–ruined reputation, a potential recall of 11 million cars, the cost of fixing them, compensating customers, potential lawsuits, paying fines—could have been avoided.
Let’s Take Back Columbus Day
Western civilization did not originate slavery, racism, warfare, or disease–but with America as its exemplar, that civilization created the antidotes.
Economic Inequality: There is No Economic Determinism Under Capitalism
hose who are celebrating the ghetto culture might consider what the cost is to those being raised in that culture. And they might reconsider what they are hearing from charlatans parading statistical disparities.
What Motivates The Haters of Capitalism?
The Left hates freedom and capitalism because capitalism and freedom are good for us.
Pope Francis Wrongly Blames Capitalism For Poverty
Pope Francis’ own native Argentina was once among the leading economies of the world, before it was ruined by the kind of ideological notions he is now promoting around the world.
How To Help Your Child Survive Public Schools
The biggest mistake I see parents make is to assume that schools (public, private, whatever) can replace their own responsibility to ensure that their children learn to think.
College Education Bubble: Government Subsidies Raise College Tuition Prices
By making it so easy for students to gain loans, colleges are free to raise their tuition year after year.
The Pope and Castro: Brothers in Social Ethics
The central principle unifying both Catholicism/Christianity and Communism is the same: Your life does not belong to you. It belongs to forces other than — “greater than” — yourselves.
Blaming The Victim: Violent Assaults on School Teachers
The sorry and tragic state of black education and its attendant problems will not be turned around until there’s a change in what’s acceptable behavior and what’s unacceptable behavior.
Free Education From Government Control
Parents, students and teachers in the marketplace, acting freely, imaginatively, creatively and rationally, will solve the problem of education for far less money and without all the government interference, rigidity and politics.
God’s Will, Secular Government and Gay Marriage
If you don’t like the fact that the government is now issuing marriage licenses to adult humans of the same gender, then don’t work in a government marriage licensing bureau.
Capitalism and Culture
There will be no real and lasting political-economic improvement until the metaphysical, epistemological, and moral principles underlying capitalism are firmly grasped and understood in a first-handed way by at least a sizable minority of the intellectuals.
This Labor Day Celebrate Man’s Mind
On Labor Day, let us honor the true root of production and wealth: the human mind.
Keeping It Real: A Review of Killing Cool
Harmless fantasy has its place, but a life of fantasy creates a multitude of problems.
Why Home Schooling?
In terms of academic achievement, home-schoolers beat out their public school counterparts.
Living Without Lies: On The Nature Of A Liberal Arts Education
C. Bradley Thompson speaks to the incoming class of Lyceum Scholars on the nature of a liberal arts education.
“Diversity” as The New Academic Fascism
Benefactors should stop giving money to universities that endorse anti-free speech and racist diversity policy. Simply go to a university’s website. If you find an office of diversity, close your pocketbook.
Thomas Sowell’s Random Thoughts for August 2015
Random thoughts on the passing scene.
John Stuart Mill: Setting Liberals on the Road to Socialism
One of the great voices for personal liberty was that of the British economist and political philosopher, John Stuart Mill. His essay, “On Liberty,” though penned well over 150 years ago, is a classic statement that the individual should be respected in his right of...
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