There are large gaps in the status between blacks and other Americans. Many blame these differences on bias across almost all institutions, processes and businesses. Heather MacDonald utterly destroys their thesis with data and facts. The gap is not due to bias, it’s due to a skills gap. Efforts to solve the problem by treating the problem as bias related will only continue to divide the country and maintain the gap.
What the press hailed as a unity speech by Biden was actually a very divisive one, again raising the issue of “systemic racism”, a flaw attributed to President Trump and all his white supporters. Why “systemic”? Because no one can actually point to an individual who is making decisions because of racism. And, if its systemic, its the fatal flaw in all white people. Heather nails the double standard in his speech and in the reaction to it.
This is an outstanding review of a truly terrible book by Robin DiAngelo that has become a best seller. The book purports to describe the sources of systematic racism in our country and how whites should change to reduce or eliminate the racism within them. Coleman Hughes does a masterful job of skewering her thinking, her logic and her prescriptions. I do not urge you to read the book. This review will tell you what she says so you can hold your own if any misguided progressive brings it up and you may be better able to understand why the racial divide is only getting deeper..
This is a pseudo science essay based on the assumption that income inequality is, in itself bad, and can be reduced by the actions of corporations. Further, those actions can be assessed using an ESG framework to analyze the performance of companies. For those yet not “woke”. ESG stands for Environmental, Social, Governance. Beyond that, the corporations which score higher will perform better and yield a higher return for their shareholders. The ‘”logic” goes on that this will result in reduced inequality. I’m including this blog to illustrate that stupidity has no bounds, is present abundantly in PhDs. and can be masked by logical leaps that defy imagination. It also can be adopted as sound policy and affect all of us if this kind of thinking gets translated into law or regulation. A little contest: Lets see who can identify the worst flaw. I will start out: The first assertion is that inequality is bad, it can be measured by the GINI coefficient and the U.S. is the most unequal of the major western countries. What’s bad about this is that the U.S. has the highest standard of living of these same countries.
Professor Kaufmann analyzes the extent of cancel culture across our university system. He shows that academic freedom is essentially gone if you have a point of view that contravenes what is now viewed as acceptable thinking. He supports his argument with data and illustrations At the end, he believes the only solution is a major restructuring and reformation of the system. Difficult to do.
Here are nine brief essays from well known scholars on the subject of identity politics in our colleges and universities. Unfortunately, E Pluribus Unum has given way to Balkanization, identity politics, anti-racism, etc, all of which is tearing at the heart of our wonderful country. We have to understand what’s happening and take part in battle for our national soul.
Brian Ried compiled an excellent book of charts that illuminate understanding our economy and provide useful data to that end. In this article that appeared in the National Review, he abstracted a bunch of widely-held beliefs from his book and described why these beliefs are wrong. At the bottom of the post, I inserted link to the City Journal of the Manhattan Institute where you can look at the data yourself.
Every presidential election year there are advocates pushing for eliminating the electoral college. Most of them are Democrats who think their control of large cities would guarantee Democrat winners or people ignorant about the founders’ reasoning behind the electoral college and like the apparent fairness of one person, one vote. The rest of us have to be more educated about the pros and cons before we toss out what some very smart guys decided and has served us well for a couple of hundred years.
Phil Gramm is a very astute economist as well as a successful politician. Here’s his take on Biden’s economic policy and its implications for our economy.
Now that Biden is putting together his foreign relations team, and his election is pretty much assured, isn’t it time for the media to stop avoiding the story about the Biden family scandal and China. That country is a major, perhaps the major, adversary of the U.S. and what they might have on the Bidens has important national security implications. This analysis by Andrew McCarthy is thoroughly researched and much of his sources can be linked from the article.
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