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Class War in California
Punishing students because their parents are too successful is unfair and unwise.
Commentary
May 1, 2024
Why America Should Be Celebrating Entrepreneurs, Not Presidents
Commentary
Feb. 19, 2024
Yes to Restitution, No to Reparations
Commentary
Feb. 24, 2023
Should We Let People Die of COVID-19 to Achieve Racial Equality?
Saving lives should be the only goal
Commentary
Feb. 15, 2021
Riots after Floyd Death Similar to 1960s Riots—Liberal Response Repeats Mistakes of Past
Commentary
June 9, 2020
Racial Preferences and the Folly of ‘Strict Scrutiny’
Commentary
Jan. 7, 2016
“Burn, Baby, Burn!”: The Watts Riot 50 Years Later
Commentary
Aug. 12, 2015
Supremely Naive: The Impact of Board of Regents v. Southworth on the “Marketplace of Ideas”
Commentary
July 27, 2015
Civil Rights Are Too Important to Leave to Special-Interest Advocates
Commentary
Jan. 17, 2015
Who Suffers? Race Riots, Then and Now
Commentary
Nov. 26, 2014
Triumph and Trashing of the Civil Rights Act
Commentary
July 21, 2014
Are Some Groups More Equal Than Others?
Commentary
May 22, 2014
Ending Racial Hatred with Heart, Wallet
Rickey and Robinson believed that people should be judged on their merits, not by the color of their skin. They also believed that capitalism, not government, held the key to equal opportunity
Commentary
May 17, 2013
SIU Experts Step into Limelight
Research Fellow Jonathan Bean to Appear on Fox Business’ Stossel
Article
Jan. 1, 2012
Booker and Barack: What Can Obama Learn from Booker T. Washington?
Commentary
Aug. 24, 2011
Playing the Presidential Race Card
Commentary
Aug. 12, 2010
What Jimmy Carter Doesn’t Know
Commentary
Sep. 17, 2009
Catholics, Civil Rights, and the Holy Name
Commentary
Aug. 17, 2009
Trickle-Down Theology Won’t Work
Commentary
July 27, 2009
The Party of Lincoln, and of Douglass
Rediscovering Frederick Douglass in the Age of Obama
Commentary
July 4, 2009


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