Tag: equality

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has declared “justice” its “Word of the Year” for 2018, owing to a 74 percent year-over-year increase in...

THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP On Friday Congress give a dinner on the acquisition of Louisiana. they determine to invite no foreign ministers, to avoid questions of...

BY SELWYN DUKE Could you imagine lightweight boxers complaining they don’t get the money and exposure of the heavyweights, calling the different treatment “staturism”? This...

Real Heroes: William Leggett LAWRENCE W. REED, THE FREEMAN Death from yellow fever complications claimed journalist William Leggett at the tender age of 38, days before...

JAMES A. DORN, THE FREEMAN The publication of Thomas Piketty’s bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century has led to widespread attention on the rising gap...

Responding to Nobel Economist Joseph Stilitz's Yahoo.com Interview BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON In an interview posted on Yahoo.com (April 23), Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz spoke...

BY SELWYN DUKE There is one particular thing that illustrates better than anything else the unreasonableness — and some would say gall — of...

American Debate In a series of papers published in 1801, Fisher Ames unleashes one of the Federalist’s most scathing attacks on the Anti-Federalist’s unbridled democratic...

BY SELWYN DUKE It long ago became clear to me that, despite all the pretense, protesting and politicking, no one who has ever seriously...

THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP A just and solid republican government maintained here, will be a standing monument & example … that a free government is of...

LAWRENCE W. REED, THE FREEMAN Clichés of Progressivism #3 “Free people are not equal, and equal people are not free.” I wish I could remember who first...

ALAN REYNOLDS, CATO INSTITUTE “IMF Warns on the Dangers of Inequality,” screams the headline of a story by Ian Talley in the Wall Street Journal....

STEWART DOMPE, ADAM C. SMITH, THE FREEMAN When it comes to public discourse, inequality is immensely fashionable. Along with its featured position at this year’s...

BY STEVE FARRELL Introduction, Democrats In Drag, Part 1 On November 11, 1994, in a post-election victory speech, Republican House member Newt Gingrich revealed to Congress...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON This week (Oct. 30 to be precise) marks the 173rd anniversary of the birth of William Graham Sumner (1840-1910). Sumner, one...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON This week (Oct. 30 to be precise) marks the 173rd anniversary of the birth of William Graham Sumner (1840-1910). Sumner, one...

BY SELWYN DUKE Take a look at the following list and tell me if anything strikes you: Prudence Justice Temperance Courage Faith Hope Charity Viewing these, the Seven Cardinal Virtues, anything make an...

BY SELWYN DUKE Take a look at the following list and tell me if anything strikes you: Prudence Justice Temperance Courage Faith Hope Charity Viewing these, the Seven Cardinal Virtues, anything make an...

American Minute with Bill Federer The dean of the University of Michigan Law School was Thomas Cooley, who died SEPTEMBER 12, 1898. Thomas Cooley was Chief...

BY CARL L. BANKSTON III The Chronicle of Higher Education notes that the U.S. Supreme Court is being urged to take up Michigan Attorney General...

BY FR. FRANK PAVONE So did you see the letter that Susan Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, wrote to President Obama yesterday...

BY CARL L. BANKSTON III The website Inside Higher Education discusses a new report issued by the Century Foundation. Part of the debate on affirmative...

Democracy In America, Alexis de Tocqueville, 1831 Appendix X: Physical Gratification and a Taste for Well-Being leading to an Army Afraid of War.  In the chapter...

Democracy In America, Alexis de Tocqueville, 1831 Appendix V It is not the equality of condition that makes men immoral and irreligious; but when men, being...

BY CARL L. BANKSTON III Visions of an ideal, intentionally designed society are at least as old as the writings of Plato, but only in...

BY JACK KERWICK If more of the American electorate were aware of three things, I would like to think that one of our two national...

Democracy In America, Alexis de Tocqueville, 1831 Appendix K It is incorrect to say that centralization was produced by the French Revolution: the Revolution brought it...

Democracy In America, Alexis de Tocqueville, 1831 Volume 2, Section 4, Chapter 8, General Survey Of The Subject BEFORE finally closing the subject that I have now...

Democracy In America, Alexis de Tocqueville, 1831 Volume 2, Section 4, Chapter 7, Continuation Of The Preceding Chapters I BELIEVE that it is easier to establish an...

Democracy In America, Alexis de Tocqueville, 1831 Volume 2, Section 4, Chapter 2, That The Opinions Of Democratic Nations About Government Are Naturally Favorable To The...