Perspectives on Race Relations

“…this country, despite its sins, also is a country for the last sixty years has truly transformed itself morally. And, Americans today are a different people in regard to all these issues [discrimination, oppression] …” Shelby Steele, How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country Parallel Perspective April 1968. I was sixteen when I heard…

Utopia Has No Room for You… in the Inn

  Utopia comes from the Greek: οὐ (“not”) and τόπος (“place”) and means “no-place“, a non-existent place. ….. And now a few clarion words from Claremont Institute Senior Fellow Angelo M. Codevilla: “This dismissal of the American people’s intellectual, spiritual, and moral substance is the very heart of what our ruling class is about. Its…

Nightmare on Envy St.

Envy St. has been the road most travelled from the start. Covetousness and self-deception have been the vehicles of choice.  The serpent promised the first couple that they could become like God – their projected 1%. “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman.  “For God knows that when you eat of…

The Invasion of the Wealth Snatchers

  “The history of the 20th century is full of examples of countries that set out to redistribute wealth and ended up redistributing poverty. The communist nations were a classic example, but by no means the only example.” – Thomas Sowell, economist ~~~ On the heels of a previous post, Resident Evil: Redistribution, I now…