Hoop Dreams and the “Black-White Gap”
The brilliant documentary Hoop Dreams follows two young inner-city black boys who envision careers in the NBA. Neither makes it. Sadder, though, were the kids’ parents. So convinced of their children’s NBA destiny, they spent little time encouraging their...Enviro-Lobbying 101: Using PC
There are a lot of behind-the-scenes scheming going on in Washington, D.C., as Administration appointees and EPA career bureaucrats plot to circumvent Senate ratification of the Kyoto Accord by classifying carbon dioxide as a pollutant rather than what it is, a...Reason vs Faith: Julian Simon vs Paul Ehrlich
In 1980, Julian Simon, the recently deceased economist and author of The Ultimate Resource, offered to environmentalists a wager based on his assertion that the price of any raw material would indefinitely decline on a future date. The wager was taken up by Paul...The Department of Professions
Imagine that in 1917 our government usurped each individual’s crucial responsibility of choosing their own profession, and that primarily because this government agency, called the Department of Professions (the DOP), has existed for generations, most Americans...Michael Milken: Guilty of Success and Victim of Non-Objective Reporting
Fischel demonstrated that the “crimes” Milken allegedly committed were mere bookkeeping infractions which violated no legitimate rights and harmed nobody.
Payback: The Conspiracy to Destroy Michael Milken and his Financial Revolution, by Daniel Fischel
Fischel’s thesis is that Milken was a financial genius who fell victim to envy and became the scapegoat for economic disasters caused by the government.
