Edward Banfield on urban rioting in the 1960s in “The Unheavenly City” (1968): The rioters knew they had little or nothing to fear from the police and the courts. Under the pressure of the civil rights movement and of court decisions and as the result of the growing ‘professionalism’ of police administrators . . . the patrolman’s discretion in the use... Read more
Archive for the ‘Socialism’ Category
UVA, Ferguson and Media Failure
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, SocialismNo one is surprised. ===== In March 2007 the New York Times Magazine ran a stunning 12,000-word cover story on the subject of “The Women’s War.” It told the story of several female veterans of the war in Iraq, of the sexual assault some had endured in the military, and of their subsequent struggles with alcoholism, depression, PTSD and other effects of... Read more
Why I Just Can’t Become Chinese
August 31 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, China, SocialismIsn’t it interesting. Consider the metric: Population vs % Naturalized Citizens. And now, ask yourself “Why?” ========= Try as I might, I just can’t become Chinese. It started as a thought experiment: I wondered what it would take for me, the son of Chinese immigrants, to become a citizen of China. So I called the nearest Chinese consulate and got lost in a voice... Read more
North Carolina Got It Right on Unemployment Benefits
July 6 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, SocialismVery nice to see. There needs to be a better balance between helping those in need, and expecting effort on their part. ============= Raleigh, N.C. A year ago, North Carolina became the first state in the nation to exit the federal government’s extended-benefits program for the unemployed. Facing the prospect of job-killing hikes in payroll taxes to pay back Washington, Gov. Pat... Read more
How Not to Help Black Americans
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | Socialism, The Left======== Jason L. Riley – June 16, 2014 7:24 p.m. ET ‘The concept of historic reparation grows out of man’s need to impose a degree of justice on the world that simply does not exist,” writes Shelby Steele in “The Content of Our Character.” “Blacks cannot be repaid for the injustice done to the race, but we can be corrupted by society’s... Read more
Behind the East German Lie
May 18 | Posted by mrossol | Socialism, The LeftI’m first generation American, but ‘the East” was never far from my thoughts. ============= After three generations, a family’s faith in the state disappears. May 6, 2014 12:22 a.m. ET From “Red Love: The Story of an East German Family,” a new memoir by Maxim Leo: I think that for both my grandfathers the [German Democratic Republic] was a kind of dreamland, in which they... Read more
