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I don't mind saying that this column represents a grossly understated review of Discrimination and Disparities, just published by my longtime friend and colleague Dr. Thomas Sowell. In less than 200 pages, Sowell lays waste to myth after myth not only in the United States but around the globe.
Compounding our ignorance is the fact that much of what we think we know is not true.
One of the unavoidable tragedies of youth is the temptation to think that what is seen today has always been.
There are a couple of important economic lessons that the American people should learn. I'm going to title one "the seen and unseen" and the other "narrow well-defined large benefits versus widely dispersed small costs."
We must own up to the fact that laws and regulations alone cannot produce a civilized society.
A liberal-created failure that goes entirely ignored is the Left's harmful agenda for society's most vulnerable people — the mentally ill.
A recent article in The Guardian dons the foreboding title "Robots will destroy our jobs — and we're not ready for it."
Carter G. Woodson, noted scholar, historian and educator, created "Negro History Week" in 1926, which became Black History Month in 1976.
Some people have called for a balanced budget amendment to our Constitution. That's a misguided vision.
Very unfortunate for our nation is that we have political groups that seek to use illegal immigration for their own benefit.
President Donald Trump said, "We are going to take a strong look at our country's libel laws so that when somebody says something that is false and defamatory about someone, that person will have meaningful recourse in our courts."
Is it ignorance of or contempt for our Constitution that fuels the movement to abolish the Electoral College?
Educational travesty is happening on many college campuses. Let's ask ourselves whether we'd like to see repeats of last year's antics.
We are a nation of 325 million people. We have a bit of control over the behavior of our 535 elected representatives in Congress, the president and the vice president. But there are seven unelected people who have life-and-death control over our economy and hence our lives — the seven governors of the Federal Reserve Board.
My recent columns have focused on the extremely poor educational outcomes for black students.
Before the question, how about a few statistics? The 20th century was mankind's most brutal century.
Society's first line of defense is not the law but customs, traditions and moral values.
Officials in Catalonia, Spain's richest and most highly industrialized region, whose capital is Barcelona, recently held a referendum in which there was a 92 percent vote in favor of independence from Spain.
The educational achievement of white youngsters is nothing to write home about, but that achieved by blacks is nothing less than disgraceful.
A common feature of our time is the extent to which many in our nation have become preoccupied with diversity. But true diversity obsession, almost a mania, is found at our institutions of higher learning.
