Intellectuals and Race (Part 4 of 4)

by | Mar 25, 2013 | Racism

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

by | Mar 25, 2013 | POLITICS

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)

by | Mar 23, 2013 | Racism

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)

by | Mar 22, 2013 | Racism

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.

A Real Term Limit

by | Mar 20, 2013 | POLITICS

Those who oppose term limits express fears of having government run by amateurs, rather than by people with long experience in politics. But this country was created by people who were not career politicians, but who put aside their own private careers to serve in office during a critical time.