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MACDONALD: We Are Not The Same

Email is a checkbox- every day, many times per day- and if I skip the scheduled sorting, things get out of hand quickly. But the glut includes all sorts of goodness, from every corner of the digital universe, much of it from readers, but also mailing lists to which I never signed up. Sorting them … Read more

Dr. Thomas Sowell

Make-Believe Equality Is Unattainable, Costly, and Harmful

In his book Intellectuals and Race, the great economist Thomas Sowell excoriates intellectuals for their role in promoting statist social engineering schemes. Sowell defined “intellectuals” as “a particular occupation—namely, people whose work begins and ends with ideas. It is an occupational designation, rather than an honorific title, and implies nothing about the mental level of those … Read more

Bananas Halloween Activism Spooktackular!

It was an odd year for Halloween here in Vermont.  Typically Halloween is used as an opportunity to either conjure up the dead or celebrate those who’ve passed on into the great mortuary in the sky.  In contrast to our banal day-to-day lives Halloween gives us a chance to play the impish tricksters or treat our neighbors to the fright of their lives.

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“Social Justice” Is Neither Social nor Just

Thomas Sowell has given us a penetrating criticism of the approach to justice taken by many political philosophers, especially John Rawls and his innumerable followers. He says that they construct an image of the way society ought to be but fail to ask whether their plans are feasible. His criticism is well-taken, although he does not offer an adequate account of the rights that people have.

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Woke Trojan Horse into Education Schools Twitter

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The political left has never understood that, if you give the government enough power to create “social justice,” you have given it enough power to create despotism. Millions of people around the world have paid with their lives for overlooking that -Prof. Thomas Sowell ( Barbarians Inside the Gates) “Social Justice” is really Mob Justice. … Read more

Notable Quote – Fear Progressivism/Socialism FAR More than Populism

A two-fer: SHOT:  Prof Thomas Sowell (Knowledge and Decisions) It is not the source or the ruthlessness of power alone which defines totalitarianism, but the unprecedented scope of the activities subjected to political control. E.g., name a part of your life in which Government HASN’T intruded and you’ll begin to understand “unprecedented scope”. I’ve challenged … Read more

Quick Takes – Hat Trick

Within I pick three topics upon which to discourse, but not worth a full-length examination as a standalone piece on their own.  But first, reprising an older cartoon (for shameless self-promotion!):

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Vanish by Feadship FI

And Then…The Government Got Involved

The “good intentions” of those in government cannot begin to understand what their actions will actually produce. They have insufficient information, insufficient knowledge of private-sector workings, and overly optimistic knowledge of what their “good intentions” will bring.

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Notable Quote – It’s all about the Culture

Most analyses of social and economic intergroup differences focus on the immediate surroundings in which people live. Sowell’s writings exposed the limitations of that approach. He concluded that it isn’t the immediate environment per se, but cultural values and human capital – skills, work habits, saving propensities, attitudes toward education and entrepreneurship, developed sometimes over … Read more

Notable Quote – Dr. Thomas Sowell

As many have warned in the past, freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly.  It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals. – Dr. Thomas Sowell, Economics Professor, syndicated columnist, author (H/T: Cafe Hayek)

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