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Equality
The assertion that all men are equal is perhaps the purest falsehood in dogma that was ever put into human language; five minutes’ observation of facts will show that men are unequal through a very wide range of variation. FULL ARTICLE by William Graham Sumner Click here to read the entire article… ... »
Equality
The assertion that all men are equal is perhaps the purest falsehood in dogma that was ever put into human language; five minutes’ observation of facts will show that men are unequal through a very wide range of variation. FULL ARTICLE by William Graham Sumner Click here to read the entire article… ... »
Why China 2009 Isn’t Like Japan 1989
When I in 2005 predicted that China would eventually become the world’s leading economy, I was asked why the bullish view on China wasn’t like the bullish view of Japan in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when some people believed that Japan would overtake America as the world’s biggest economy, something which hasn’t... »
Evidence-based for Thee, But Not for Me
One of the things that strikes me as curious about supporters of the No Child Left Behind Act is that they talk regularly about “evidence” and having everything be “research-based,” yet they often ignore or distort evidence in order to portray NCLB as a success. Case in point, an op-ed in today’s New York... »
Re: The Passing of Great People
Lew: The coincidental deaths of JFK, Huxley, and Lewis led me to wonder how the media might have had to ration its time for deification had Teddy Kennedy and Michael Jackson died on the same day. To their credit, some members of the media gave attention to the Chappaquiddick wrongdoing. I suspect that... »
