Recent Must Reads
Shelby Steele says affirmative action is a distraction:
We blacks know oppression well, but today it is our inexperience with freedom that holds us back almost as relentlessly as oppression once did. Out of this inexperience, for example, we miss the fact that racial preferences and disparate impact can only help us — even if they were effective — with a problem we no longer have. The problem that black firefighters had in New Haven was not discrimination; it was the fact that not a single black did well enough on the exam to gain promotion.
Ilya Somin proposes getting rid of the bar exam, or at least exposing its utter uselessness.
Richard Posner takes Paul Krugman to task for … ignoring Keynes?
But Krugman’s passionate support for the Administration’s health-care program suggests that he has not absorbed one of the central elements of Keynes’s theory, which is the role of uncertainty in depressing investment spending and, both by depressing investment and by increasing passive savings, in depressing consumption spending as well.
But just because pro athletes have careers we covet doesn’t mean those careers come with further obligations than ours. Society’s approval is not part of the job description any more than it is for a banker.
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