“How funny is it that gay activists stay away from black churches; it’s the same hypocrisy you see with the animal rights group PETA. They’ll throw paint on a white guy wearing ostrich boots, but they’d never do that to…
Read MoreDaniel Greenfield wrote Capitalism: A Hate Story in his blog, The Sultan Knish, 2/27/13. Excerpt: The traditional image of the anti-capitalist as a ragamuffin who dies of consumption in his garret has always been at odds with the real image…
Read MoreMark Tooley writes A Liberal Evangelical Resigns From AARP in American Spectator, 2/22/13. Excerpt: Calling AARP “selfish and guilty of intergenerational injustice,” Sider chides the self-professed lobby for seniors over its adamant opposition to any reform of Social Security and…
Read MoreDan Mitchell writes The Perverse Unintended Consequences of Anti-Discrimination Laws in his blog International Liberty February 23, 2013 Excerpt: And if there are two applicants who otherwise seem to have equal qualifications for a certain job, but one has been out…
Read MoreMegan McArdle writes The New Mandarins in The Daily Beast, 2/21/13. Excerpt: All elites are good at rationalizing their eliteness, whether it’s meritocracy or “the divine right of kings.” The problem is the mandarin elite has some good arguments. They…
Read MoreRobert Zubrin writes Green Anti-Humanism in The National Review 2/21/13 Excerpts: Colorado State University philosophy professor Philip Cafaro advanced the argument that immigration needs to be sharply cut, because otherwise people from Third World nations will come to the United…
Read MoreFrom John Cochrane, The Grumpy Economist, Two Cents on the Minimum Wage, Let’s presume for the sake of discussion that a rise in the minimum wage would indeed not much change the demand for labor, the costs would just be…
Read MoreWhat Data Can’t Do by David Brooks at The New York Times, 2/18/13 Excerpt: Data struggles with context. Human decisions are not discrete events. They are embedded in sequences and contexts. The human brain has evolved to account for this reality.…
Read MorePeople sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. We have now sunk to a depth…
Read MoreAmericans are losing trust in government by Glenn Harlan Reynolds in USA Today February 11, 2013 Excerpt: Nobel-prize-winning economist Ronald Coase made that point in a 1998 interview: “When I was editor of The Journal of Law and Economics, we published a whole series of…
Read MoreIn a couple of postings I have written on what seemed to be a bifurcated economy: publicly traded large firms and large private firms seem to be doing OK, but smaller privately held firms are not. In my narrow window…
Read MoreDaniel Greenfield writes The Guns of Obamerica in his blog The Sultan Knish, 1/20/2013. Excerpts: 67% of firearm murders took place in the country’s 50 largest metro areas. The 62 cities in those metro areas have a firearm murder rate…
Read MoreIn the Wall Street Journal Richard Vedder writes The Wages of Unemployment, 1/15/13. Excerpts: The sharp rise in food-stamp beneficiaries predated the financial crisis of 2008: From 2000 to 2007, the number of beneficiaries rose from 17.1 million to 26.3…
Read MoreVictor David Hanson writes The Decline of America is The National Review, 2/14/13. Excerpts: One recurring theme seems consistent in Athenian literature on the eve of the city’s takeover by Macedon: social squabbling over slicing up a shrinking pie. Athenian…
Read MoreDan Greenfield write in his blog Sultan Knish The Unverifiable World. Excerpts: Every issue becomes tribal, sometimes literally in the accusations of racism and representation, but mostly in the sense that every position depends on affiliation. Every idea becomes a…
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Culture Determines Politics
John Agresto writes Was Promoting Democracy a Mistake in the 12/12 issue of Commentary. Excerpts: Democracy, we need to understand, is rule by the people. Democracy more than any other government takes on the character of its people. But if the people…
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