Posted in Politics, economics, justice, tagged fairness, taxes on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
We usually think we have a good common sense grasp on what’s fair and what’s not. Kwame Anthony Appiah points out that when it comes to tax policy, at any rate, that’s not so, as Thomas Schelling’s research demonstrates:
Would it be fair, do you think, to give poor parents a bigger credit than rich [...]
Posted in Equality, justice, tagged Obama, race on April 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Juan Williams contrasts the views of Barack Obama and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Posted in Distributive Justice, Equality, Politics, justice, tagged affirmative action, Obama, race on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Michael Goldfarb points out how amazing our current situation is:
What if I told you in 2004 that the Democratic party would run an African American candidate for president in 2008? I tell you National Journal will officially label this candidate the most liberal member of the United States Senate. This candidate will also have served [...]
Posted in justice, tagged baseball, enforcement, justice, law on March 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Eliot Spitzer has resigned as Governor of New York, giving the state its first African-American governor.
Michael Barone has reflections on the danger of selective enforcement when a law on the books generally goes unenforced:
When society has effectively legalized something that is still theoretically illegal, there is always the possibility of selective prosecution—targeting individuals who are [...]
Posted in Distributive Justice, Education, Equality, justice, tagged Equality, justice, social work on March 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The National Association of Scholars has published a report on schools of social work throughout the country, finding that most are committed to ideological indoctrination rather than unbiased research: “Social work education is a national academic scandal.” Stephen Balch, NAS Director:
Defenders of the American university claim that the seriousness of the problem of [...]
Posted in justice, liberty, rights, tagged conservatism, John McCain, justice, liberty, rights on February 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
John McCain reaches out to conservatives.
I am proud to be a conservative, and I make that claim because I share with you that most basic of conservative principles: that liberty is a right conferred by our Creator, not by governments, and that the proper object of justice and the rule of law in our country [...]
Posted in justice, tagged Israel, justice on January 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Morris Pollard (Jonathan’s father) and David Kirshenbaum argue that Jonathan Pollard, convicted of spying for Israel in 1985, should be freed. The key passage:
Jonathan was never accused of intending to, or even of having reason to believe that the information he transmitted to Israel could cause injury to America. Indeed, 22 years after Jonathan’s [...]
