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26 Sep 2009, 8:45 pm
Now many people argue that both of these are important, and up to a point I agree. [read post]
25 May 2009, 1:40 am
With sufficient rigor, the answer will always be clear.In the second of a series of essays condemning the idea of empathy as a criterion for selecting a nominee to the Court (here), Thomas Sowell retold this story about Justice Holmes:After a lunch with Judge Learned Hand, as Holmes was departing in a carriage to return to work, Judge Hand said to him: "Do justice, sir. [read post]
6 May 2009, 11:42 pm
What's up with Chinese people having English names? [read post]
10 Feb 2009, 6:18 am
As new titles are added, this post will move up. [read post]
5 Jan 2009, 12:55 am
Had we lived up to our Constitution, had we lived up to the principles that we espoused, there would certainly be no need. [read post]
26 Nov 2008, 4:19 pm
Thomas Sowell talks about Obama's plan to "jolt" the economy. [read post]
18 Nov 2008, 10:46 am
Sowell and State v. [read post]
8 Oct 2008, 1:29 pm
Thus, the issue should be framed as follows: it's not that college has a high premium, it's that failing to go to college has a stiff penalty.To amplify on an analogy from Thomas Sowell, imagine that you are sitting in a football stadium in a crowd of 70,000 people, and that most of them stand up. [read post]
17 Sep 2008, 4:06 pm
A student who would have done fine at a second tier school, grouped with other students of his own ability, is accepted by Stanford instead, takes classes aimed at and populated by students abler and/or better prepared than he is, fails to learn, fails the bar exam, and ends up having wasted three years and a good deal of money. [read post]
1 May 2008, 12:01 am
Thomas Sowell sums it up: Although Senator Obama has presented himself as the candidate of new things â€â [read post]
23 Apr 2008, 5:01 am
Only marginalized commentators like Shelby Steele and Thomas Sowell could even explore these questions. [read post]
24 Mar 2008, 11:54 pm
Obama was one of those people seeking a racial identity that he had never really experienced in growing up in a white world. [read post]
14 Mar 2008, 1:57 am
We've filled the prisons up with nonviolent offenders to the point that we don't have room to house dangerous ones. [read post]
16 Oct 2007, 6:25 pm
But the sudden interest of Congressional Democrats in this issue goes beyond trying to pick up some votes. [read post]
10 May 2007, 4:24 pm
Do you think he'll ever open up to the media, or begin to speak more at oral argument? [read post]
2 May 2007, 11:59 am
The US military is chopped up into 5 services (counting the Coast Guard), the reserves, and the National Guard. [read post]