Celebrity Intellectuals
Michael Moore, Jim Carey, Bad Thinking, and Why “The Balance of Power is the Scale of Peace”
Are We Equal?
Soft-minded and sloppy-thinking academics, lawyers and judges harbor the silly notion that but for the fact of discrimination, we’d be proportionately distributed by race across incomes, education, occupations and other outcomes.
‘Me Too’ Republicans
Polls and focus groups are not a substitute for thought.
Can It Happen Here? Cyprus Government Confiscates Cash From Private Bank Accounts
After going back and forth, the government of Cyprus ultimately decided, under international pressure, to go ahead with its plan to raid people’s bank accounts. But could similar policies be imposed in other countries, including the United States?
Intellectuals and Race (Part 4 of 4)
Among the many irrational ideas about racial and ethnic groups that have polarized societies over the centuries and around the world, few have been more irrational and counterproductive than the current dogmas of multiculturalism. Intellectuals who imagine that they...A Real Term Limit
If we want term limits to achieve their goals, we have to make the limit one term, with a long interval prescribed before the same person can hold any government office again. In short, we need to make political careers virtually impossible.
Intellectuals and Race (Part 3 of 4)
The theory of genetic determinism which dominated the early 20th century led to many harmful consequences, ranging from racial segregation and discrimination up to and including the Holocaust. The currently prevailing theory is that malice of one sort or another explains group differences in outcomes.
Intellectuals and Race (Part 2 of 4)
History has many dramatic examples of the rise and fall of peoples and nations, for a wide range of known and unknown reasons. What history does not have is what is so often assumed as a norm today, equality of group achievements at a given point in time.
Intellectuals and Race (Part 1 of 4)
On the notion that there is something unusual about different races being unequally represented in various institutions, careers or at different income or achievement levels.
