Amendment 46: Fairness in hiring, admissions

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

In today's Denver Post, Jessica Peck Corry of the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative writes: The Colorado Civil Rights Initiative would once and for all prohibit our government from discriminating on the basis of race or gender in public education, public contracting, and public hiring. Every day in Colorado, our government preaches ...

What warrants explaining: equality or inequality?

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Follow up to: Thomas Sowell on income inequality Today Yahoo News reported the this Live Science article: Conservatives Happier Than Liberals Individuals with conservative ideologies are happier than liberal-leaners, and new research pinpoints the reason: Conservatives rationalize social and economic inequalities. Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life ...

Thomas Sowell on income inequality

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Arnold Kling (Swarthmore '75) has recommended a podcast by George Mason University Economics Professor Russ Roberts about basic economics. Kling writes that If you had just one hour to learn essential, basic economics, listening to this talk would be the way to do it. The core topic is the reasons ...