Big Oil: A Politician’s Favorite Villain
The Supreme Court’s recent 8 to 0 decision (Justice Alito not yet participating) shot down a claim that oil companies were colluding in setting prices. That claim was upheld by the far-left 9th Circuit Court of Appeals but neither liberals nor conservatives on...Why Does Hillary Clinton Fear Condoleezza Rice?
Presidential aspirant Hillary Clinton used Rev. Al Sharpton’s Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration to, as Professor Shelby Steele explains, “whistle for the black vote by pandering to the black sense of grievance.” In response to a question...‘Crash’ Wins ‘Best Picture’
So Crash, one of the most philosophically objectionable movies that I’ve seen in a long time, won yesterday’s coveted Academy Award for “Best Picture.” Crash has two major themes: everyone is a racist, doesn’t know it, and no one is a...Publish or Perish: The Lessons of the Cartoon Jihad
The central issue of the “cartoon jihad”–the Muslim riots and death threats against a Danish newspaper that printed 12 cartoons depicting Mohammed–is obvious. The issue is freedom of speech: whether our freedom to think, write, and draw is to...The Jay Bennish ‘Diatribe as Geography’
Bennish is free to let loose his diatribes on his own time, but he has no right to demand a captive audience of high-school students.
What Can One Do About The Latest Islamic Attack on Western Values
Several friends have asked me what they can do in response to the latest Islamic attack on free speech and Western values. I have a few thoughts, but would very much welcome additional suggestions from readers. To begin, I note that the West already has all the...Something for Nothing: Living Wage and Unemployment
The Economist magazine reports that the official unemployment rate in South Africa is 26 percent but that the real unemployment rate there may be even higher. The South African economy is growing. Why then this extremely high unemployment rate? What is going on? What...For Society To Thrive, The Rich Must Be Left Alone: Krugman’s Hostility to Economic Inequality
Economic inequality that results from economic freedom is to the material self-interest of everyone. It is the foundation of rising real wages and a rising standard of living.
