“Many progressives seem to think we can transform America into a vast college campus where food, shelter, and recreation are all provided for us and the only crime is to be mean to somebody else, particularly a minority.” — Arnold Kling, quoting a passage of Jonah Goldberg’s recent book Liberal Fascism while reviewing the book
Archive for the 'Books' Category
Dec12th2007
“In deciding on rules about combat integration, the ultimate question can’t be how to maximize women’s opportunities. Instead, it has to be how to maximize the military’s power to defeat the enemy. Clausewitz wrote that “everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.” Mixing the sexes together in an integrated combat […]
Nov28th2007
” If we look at the history of Western civilization, we find that Christianity has illuminated the greatest achievements of the culture. Read the new atheist books and make a list of the institutions and values that Hitchens and Dawkins and the others cherish the most. They value the idea of the individual, and the […]
Oct6th2007
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Academia, Books, DayToDay and General. 3 Comments“[Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence] Thomas was talking about how surprisingly positively he has been received in campuses around the country over the past two decades. It is mostly the faculty, not the students or the public that are tough on him. Of course, there are some law schools he does not expect an invitation […]
Oct5th2007
Slavery In Context - Friday Edition
Published by in Books, Chicanoism, Conversation Continued, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 5 CommentsDo me a favor, read this and this from Michael Medved and when you are done read this blog post and tell me if their description of what Medved wrote is accurate.
After reading the two articles I responded in the comments section to correct what I saw as a false representation of what he had […]
Jan30th2007
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Books, Communism, Economics, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and LatinAmerica. 7 Comments“Since the collapse of the Soviet empire, many defenders of socialism have argued that dictators, including Mao, Stalin, and Pol Pot, were aberrations; they took Marx’s ideas in the wrong direction. They claim that nationalization of the means of production (call it communism, socialism, or Marxism) and democracy can be compatible. In The Road to […]
Oct18th2006
“I recently have started using the well-known book, The Skeptical Evironmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg…In the section on forests, Lomborg states that in the previous 50 years before publication (in 2001), contrary to the assertions of various people and organisations, the total area of land covered by woods and forests barely changed at all. He cites […]
Sep27th2006
What Happens If A Company Pays Engineers The Same As Technicians
Published by in Books, Economics, Education, General and Unions. 2 CommentsWhat would happen if an engineering company decided to pay engineers the same as they pay technicians? You would get technician level engineers, that’s what would happen.
The same is true with regard to our public education. Because of unions, our public education system pays science teachers the same as english teachers, and given that science […]
Jul27th2006
Free Economic Education Videos (In Arabic Too!)
Published by in Books, DayToDay, Economics and General. 0 CommentsDevelopment Bank Research Bulletin blog composes a list of “several classical TV series that you can watch in the evening when you have some free time”, classics like, Milton Friedman’s PBS TV series: Free to Choose (1980 and 1990 version) and PBS TV series: Commanding Height. All free, all educational, all economics.
Highly recommended for […]
Jun30th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Books, General and ModernPolitics. 7 Comments“President Bush, like Ronald Reagan before him and innumerable others who are out of favor among liberals, has repeatedly been depicted as such a mental lightweight that he is not in the same league with brilliant guys like Al Gore and John Kerry. The fact is that George W. Bush and John Kerry both went […]
Apr24th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Academia, Books, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 2 Comments“Facts that go against preconceived notions are likely to be ignored, even by many scholars. For example, slavery is an issue that is widely discussed as if it were something peculiar to Africans enslaved by Europeans, instead of something suffered and inflicted around the world by people of every race, color, and religion. Two books […]
Mar8th2006
“No simple cause explains why blacks are disproportionately poor relative to whites. My argument here is not that even a fraction of black poverty can be explained by history, but only to emphasize that expectations that black Americans can and should simply participate in our market capitalist and democratic institutions should they wish to prosper […]
Jan5th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Books, Education, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 1 Comment“In education, on the other hand, a small, but growing, number of schools are proving the SchoolRef[ormer]s right: with high expectations, a rigorous curriculum, and dedicated teachers and principals, low-income black and Hispanic students can excel. Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom studied these schools and summed up their strategy as “no excuses“. Two examples are here […]
Nov16th2005
Ruben Navarrette On The Thernstroms
Published by in Books, Education, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 0 CommentsFrequent readers of my blog know that I am a big fan of the book, No Excuses : Closing the Racial Gap in Learning , by Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom. I have recommended it several times and continue to highly recommend it.
Well than, you can imagine my surprise, and delight!!!, to see Ruben Navarrette discuss […]
Oct28th2005
Do you know of any good podcasts? Here are some economic podcast sites I’d recommend.
Radio Economics, a blog by Dr. James Reese an economics professor at the University of South Carolina. He interviews various economic bloggers. Interviews include nobel laureate Gary Becker and Richard Posner, of the Becker-Posner blog. There is also a recent one […]
Oct6th2005
In Praise Of Hernando De Soto
Published by in Books, Economics, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and LatinAmerica. 0 CommentsEl Más Chingón, a blogger friend I met up with in Austin recently, posted a summary of the life and career of Ruben Salazar, a Mexican-American journalist I had not heard of before.
In that same spirit, I thought I would give recognition to a man that few people outside of the economics community have heard […]
