Controversial essays /
One of conservatism's most articulate voices dissects today's most important economic, racial, political, education, legal, and social issues, sharing his entertaining and thought-provoking insights on a wide range of contentious subjects. --This book contains an abundance of wisdom on a l...
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Stanford, Calif. :
Hoover Institution Press,
2002
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part I: Economic issues
- Drugs and politics
- The real revolutionaries
- India unbound
- Capital gains and "trickle down"
- No sense of proportion
- Headline news
- Warrior in a 200-year war
- The role of the rich
- Perennial economic fallacies
- Sweatshops at home and abroad
- Sanity in San Francisco
- The end of Montgomery Ward
- "Saving" social security
- Social security vs. privatization
- Minimum journalism
- Merit and money
- Part II: Racial issues
- Routine cruelty
- Losing the race
- Reparations for slavery?
- The lessons of Indonesia
- Blacks and bootstraps
- "Racism" in word and deed
- Sweeping success under the rug
- Sorting by race
- The magic word
- Race and the new century
- "Access" to responsibility
- Part III: Political issues
- Poverty and the left
- "Useful idiots"
- Facts versus dogma on guns
- Global hot air
- "Campaign finance reform" follies
- Ugliness in Yosemite
- State stealing
- Loving enemies
- Microsoft and campaign finance reform
- Lying statistics
- Are we still Americans?
- Pacifism and war
- Intended consequences
- Islam and the West
- Pandering to the anointed
- Green bigots versus human beings
- Another outrage
- The best of the century
- Part IV: Educational issues
- The wrong filter
- Too many Ph. D.s?
- "No excuses"
- Back door quotas
- We are all "dropouts"
- School to school?
- The war against boys
- "Research" marches on
- Let's hear it for unfairness!
- Does it add up?
- Diversity versus "diversity"
- Choosing a college
- A painful history
- "Forced to volunteer"
- Drugging children
- Goodbye to Sara and Benjamin?
- Success concealing failure
- The old neighborhood
- Wasting minds
- The "non-profit" halo
- Do facts matter?
- Part V: Legal issues
- Property rites
- Love those killers!
- Microsoft and anti-trust "law"
- Lessons not learned
- Law on trial
- Aborted knowledge
- Murder is murder
- McVeigh and the death penalty
- Part VI: Social issues
- Boomers and boomerangs
- Deep trouble from shallow people
- Thanksgiving and "fairness"
- Was the ball juiced?
- The dangers of "equality"
- Is the family becoming extinct?
- Life at the bottom
- Gay marriage
- The Einstein syndrome
- Loose lips
- "The duty to die"
- Shocked by the obvious
- Families and dictators
- The "autism" dragnet
- Racial profiling of authors
- Chandra Levy clues
- Barry and the babe
- Media fraud
- The insulation of the left
- W. Glenn Campbell (1924-2001)
- Part VII: Random thoughts.
