When Julius Caesar was repeatedly stabbed in a Senate meeting in 44 B.C., it wasn’t just Brutus, Cassius, or the other 60 “liberators” who were killing him — it was, in their minds, “the people.” While the Senators miscalculated —…
Blue collar white voters continue to make up Donald Trump’s base. This is especially true for rural voters. They are often portrayed in the mainstream media as too uneducated to know better. Some have attributed the working-class affinity ,for the…
In 1963, Martin Luther King delivered his “I Had a Dream” speech. At the time, racist barriers substantially impacted the life chances of blacks, the parents and grandparents of today’s black youths. Structural racism in American society was clearly evidenced…
Social Justice Fallacies By Thomas Sowell (Basic Books, 224 pages, $28) How fortunate we are to have Thomas Sowell to apply clarifying reason and evidence — both always in short supply — to the confused and dishonest rhetoric and toxic…
Today’s hyperpartisan and frequently negative news cycle ignores one significant and uplifting story: the precipitous decline of global inequality. It’s a subject that deserves our attention, for it reveals the power of markets, trade, and human ingenuity to lift up…
Early in his papacy, Pope Francis tweeted out, “Inequality is the root of social evil.” That statement remains a defining moment of his pontificate. Contained in that one remark is a Marxist mindset alien to the Church’s teachings which has…
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Or do we? At the end of a long, bitter political year, shall we take a look? The Founding Fathers’ abstract commitment to equality — reinforced by…
In his September 6 article “All Men Are Created Equal,” Shmuel Klatzkin contends that when the Founders declared “All men are created equal,” they meant that “[w]e are equally granted the rights to life, to liberty, and to property and are…
These days the Right and Left look at jurisprudence differently. They have different views of what judges are for and how they should perform their duties. Consider the question of how the Supreme Court should decide a constitutional question. Generally…
