Hoover Institution fellow Thomas Sowell says that reparations are not going to happen but the attempt to make it happen will polarize the country. Sowell said reparations are another left-wing idea that sounds so wonderful that people never stop to ask can we actually do this?

Is there a case for compensating those touched by slavery’s legacy?

In an effort to differentiate himself from the pack by moving as far to the left as he can on the political spectrum, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) has now introduced a bill to the Senate that would study the payment of slavery reparations, reports Fox News.

Over at CafeHayek, George Mason University economist Donald Boudreaux, a frequent commenter on this blog, has been in an interesting conversation with two scholars at the American Enterprise Institute. His first post was an open letter to economist Aparna Mathur. She didn’t reply but her colleague Angela Rachidi, whose Ph.D. is in public policy, did.