I recently attended a talk by Hadley Arkes on jurisprudence in which, among other things, he criticized the reasoning of the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark school desegregation case from 1954. The Court declared the unconstitutionality of segregation on the basis of Kenneth Clark’s social science research on the [...]
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Arkes on Brown v. Board of Education
Posted in Equality, rights, tagged Brown, equal protection, Equality, law, segregation on February 11, 2008 | No Comments »
The Rich Really are Different…
Posted in Distributive Justice, Equality, economics, tagged consumption, Equality on February 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
They have more money. But they don’t really have all that much more stuff:
Looking at a far more direct measure of American families’ economic status — household consumption — indicates that the gap between rich and poor is far less than most assume, and that the abstract, income-based way in which we measure the [...]
Why Republicans are Happier
Posted in Distributive Justice, Equality, Politics, ethics, liberty, tagged diversity, Equality, freedom, happiness, Politics, responsibility on February 10, 2008 | 60 Comments »
The Washington Post reports:
Most studies show that wealthy people are marginally happier than poor ones. People with pets or children are no happier than those without. People with active sex lives are — surprise! — happier than those without. No single morsel of happiness data, though, is more intriguing than this: Republicans are happier than [...]
Should men pay higher taxes than women?
Posted in Distributive Justice, Equality, economics, ethics, tagged Equality, gender, taxation on February 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Spain’s Popular Party has proposed that women receive tax breaks for… being women! Since parties to its left are likely to pile on board, Spain will soon have a tax system that discriminates on the basis of gender. There’s a radical feminist argument for this, but there’s also a utilitarian argument based on [...]
Underrepresentation
Posted in Education, Equality, tagged discrimination, gender, race, underrepresentation, universities on February 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
With apologies to Glenn Reynolds: They told me that if George W. Bush were re-elected, certain racial, ethnic, religious, and gender groups would be grossly underrepresented on campus. And they were right!
Another Ponzi Scheme
Posted in Distributive Justice, Equality, economics, regulation, tagged Health Care, insurance, mandates, regulation on February 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Many have noticed that the Social Security system is essentially a Ponzi scheme, a pyramid that depends on the entry of increasing numbers of people. People who entered the system early profited immensely. People entering it when I did are fated to receive poor returns, assuming the system survives. People entering it [...]
No Remorse– In Fact, Rewards
Posted in Distributive Justice, Equality, tagged polygamy, welfare on February 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Even though polygamy is illegal in Britain, residents who practice it can now get extra welfare benefits for their extra wives.
European Intolerance
Posted in Equality, Religion, tagged discrimination, Equality, gay rights, tolerance on January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Bruce Bawer reports on the growing intolerance of gays throughout Europe.
Martin Luther King Day
Posted in Equality, tagged civil rights, Equality on January 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Today, let us remember Dr. King and the other heroes of the American Civil Rights movement. On August 28, 1963, Dr. King gave his most famous speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial:
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
And so even though we face the [...]
