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A Good Man Is Still Hard To Find

quoting Harvey C. Mansfield, Tunku Varadarajanvia The Washington Times
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Women have been complaining since the original Adams family was evicted from the Garden of Eden that “a good man is hard to find.” Despite radical feminist mockery of the very idea of “manliness,” that men are natural sexual predators, most women, with very few exceptions, still want one.

In the News

Government Watchdog Finds Racial Bias In School Discipline

quoting Michael J. Petrillivia The New York Times
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Black students continue to be disciplined at school more often and more harshly than their white peers, often for similar infractions, according to a new report by Congress’s nonpartisan watchdog agency, which counters claims fueling the Trump administration’s efforts to re-examine discipline policies of the Obama administration.

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The Libertarian: The Unintended Consequences Of Anti-Discrimination Laws

interview with Richard A. Epsteinvia Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

How attempts to combat intolerance in the workplace can backfire.

Interviews

Ben Shapiro Interviews Thomas Sowell

interview with Thomas Sowellvia The Daily Wire
Friday, March 30, 2018

Hoover Institution fellow Thomas Sowell talks about his new book Discrimination and Disparities. Sowell notes that the existence of the differences in outcomes between groups does not mean there is negative discrimination occurring against members of a particular group. Sowell asks if there is not equality of outcomes to people born to the same parents and raised under the same roof, why should equality of outcomes be expected--or assumed--when conditions are not nearly so comparable?

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Walter Williams: Sowell’s Book Exposes Flawed ‘Social Justice’ Narrative

featuring Thomas Sowellvia Greensboro.com
Monday, April 2, 2018

I don't mind saying that this column represents a grossly understated review of “Discrimination and Disparities,” just published by my longtime friend and colleague Thomas Sowell. In fewer than 200 pages, Sowell lays waste to myth after myth not only in the United States but around the globe.

Interviews

Thomas Sowell On Q & A With Jay Nordlinger

interview with Thomas Sowellvia Ricochet
Monday, April 2, 2018

Hoover Institution fellow Thomas Sowell talks about his latest book Discrimination and Disparities as well as human diversity. He discusses equality of opportunity and equality of results. (Two very different things.) And, Sowell talks about the manipulation of statistics, a sore point.

Analysis and Commentary

White Men Are Bad?

by Niall Ferguson quoting Harvey C. Mansfieldvia Boston Globe
Monday, April 2, 2018

It is not very fashionable to be a man these days, especially a white one. After the exposure of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged record of sexual assault and harassment, The New York Times ran a piece entitled “The unexamined brutality of the male libido” by the Canadian writer Stephen Marche.

Featured

Manhood In The Age Of Trump

by Tunku Varadarajan featuring Harvey C. Mansfieldvia Wall Street Journal
Friday, March 30, 2018

The author of ‘Manliness’ suggests the president’s vulgar appeal may be the beginning of the end of the push for gender-neutrality.

In the News

Steele Says Sharpton, Liberals Only Offer Blacks Racial Victimization, Division

quoting Shelby Steelevia LifeZette
Friday, March 30, 2018

Hoover Institution fellow Shelby Steele condemns attempts by Dem activists to politicize tragedies involving confrontations of African-American men, police.

In the News

Rice On Race And America’s Strength

featuring Condoleezza Ricevia Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Despite her historic roles, Condoleezza Rice knows what it’s like to be treated like a second-class citizen.

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