The Racism of Reparations

Reparations advocates are not concerned with individual justice. They subscribe to the collectivist belief that individuals are merely interchangeable members of a group.

South Africa: After Apartheid

A major crusader failing is that they seldom look back to their last crusade to see how it turned out. During my several South Africa visits during its apartheid era, up to three months on one occasion, I lectured at nearly all of its universities. I had the...

Tax Cuts and Saving Social Security

Foes of President Bush’s tax-cut plan are getting desperate. They haven’t reached the point of claiming that tax cuts cause cancer and road rage, but they’re close. Depending on the day of the week, we’re told that cuts will cause inflation,...

Nader & George and Fannie & Freddie

Have pigs grown wings? Is it snowing in Hades? Ralph Nader actually said nice things about President Bush this week. The devil’s tail must be blue with frostbite. In an opinion piece Nader co-authored for The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, the standard-bearer...

Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd, Ex-Klansman

Ex-Klansman Robert Byrd, the senior senator from West Virginia, casually used the phrase “white nigger” twice on national TV this weekend. Enraged civil rights groups organized a protest campaign against Sen. Byrd and demanded that he undergo sensitivity...