One thing is to discuss the relative place of ethnic identity as a social construct within the constellation of “identities,” or better, “identifiers” that make up our social being and another thing is to deny that one is black. Often, ...
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Reparations argue that racist structures have nonetheless benefited these whites, but again, it’s hard to justify lumping these groups together with white families whose wealth is inherited from slave plantations.
Read MoreA utopian is one who sees a solution where there is none and one who favors extremism in the pursuit of that solution. Once one believes to have found the ultimate explanatory element for a condition, the resulting behavior is ...
Read MoreThe economic pain imposed by the pandemic has highlighted this fact. The employment crisis came suddenly: In two months the US went from a booming economy with millions of unfilled jobs to an economic death spiral with millions of Americans ...
Read MoreMy mother’s response taught me something radically important: my dignity resides in me, not in whatever sad errors others made about me.
Read MoreHere at the Freedom & Virtue Institute, even during a crisis, we insist that the entrepreneurial vocation is an intrinsic feature of the good society...Only productive societies survive and thrive. In fact, entrepreneurs are the ones who solve the main ...
Read MoreWhen it comes to social privileges, they exist and they are impossible to quantify. If you were born in the year 2000 instead of, say 1400, you would live longer and better (technology privilege); if you are born in ...
Read MorePenalizing great minds can only produce sorrows for all but it seems “fair.” Let us all get a “fair share” of a shrinking universe, is the idea. As long as the space between “them” and “us” shrinks, I’ll be happy ...
Read MoreSo many people in the field have been trained in social work. That area is a minefield of a collectivist anthropology and statist sociology, that directly or subtly collapses the basic communities of society within the affairs and institutions of ...
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