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Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black
underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended
beneficiaries? In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines
how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black
Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who
are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of
blacks out of the labor force. Affirmative action in higher
education is intended to address past discrimination, but the
result is fewer black college graduates than would otherwise exist.
And so it goes with everything from soft-on-crime laws, which make
black neighborhoods more dangerous, to policies that limit school
choice out of a mistaken belief that charter schools and voucher
programs harm the traditional public schools that most low-income
students attend. In theory these efforts are intended to help the
poor-and poor minorities in particular. In practice they become
massive barriers to moving forward. Please Stop Helping Us lays
bare these counterproductive results. People of goodwill want to
see more black socioeconomic advancement, but in too many instances
the current methods and approaches aren't working. Acknowledging
this is an important first step.
Thomas Sowell has an almost godlike status amongst conservative
intellectuals. "It's a scandal that economist Sowell has not been
awarded the Nobel Prize," wrote a reviewer in Forbes. A profile in
the Wall Street Journal described him as "one of America's great
sages." His writing on politics, economics, and social issues have
prompted both contempt and praise. In Maverick, Jason Riley
explores the life and ideas of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most
important Black intellectuals. A bright student with a tumultuous
home life, Sowell was admitted to one of New York's most
competitive high schools but dropped out at age 16. He left home a
year later and moved into a shelter in the Bronx for homeless boys
where he kept a knife under his pillow for protection. Years later,
the G.I. bill enabled him to enroll in night school at Howard
University and after his freshman year, he transferred to Harvard.
By 1968, Sowell received his doctorate in economics from the
University of Chicago, his dissertation written under the guidance
of future Nobel economists Milton Friedman and George Stigler.
Maverick follows Sowell from the University of Chicago to his early
critiques of the Civil Rights moment. In the 60s and 70s, Sowell
accepted teaching positions at Howard, Cornell, UCLA, and elsewhere
-- but the campus turmoil of the era clashed with Sowell's
principles and he refused to bend. He turned his attention to
writing. Over the past fifty tears, Sowell has written over thirty
books and countless columns and media appearances. Riley offers an
introduction to Sowell's ideas, from race and inequality to
economics and education. Riley considers how Sowell's own history
alongside the moments and movements that shaped his thinking to
offer a nuanced portrait of one of America's leading conservative
intellectuals. Maverick explores the extraordinary scope and depth
of arguably the most influential and trenchant Black social critics
alive in America today - one whose contributions have been
underacknowledged because they do not align with progressive ideas
about race.
A conservative columnist makes an eye-opening case for why
immigration improves the lives of Americans and is important for
the future of the country
Separating fact from myth in today's heated immigration debate, a
member of "The Wall Street Journal" editorial board contends that
foreign workers play a vital role in keeping America prosperous,
that maintaining an open-border policy is consistent with
free-market economic principals, and that the arguments put forward
by opponents of immigration ultimately don't hold up to scrutiny.
In lucid, jargon-free prose aimed at the general-interest reader,
Riley takes on the most common anti-immigrant complaints, including
claims that today's immigrants overpopulate the United States,
steal jobs, depress wages, don't assimilate, and pose an undue
threat to homeland security. As the 2008 presidential election
approaches with immigration reform on the front burner, "Let Them
In" is essential reading for liberals and conservatives alike who
want to bring an informed perspective to the discussion.
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False Black Power? (Paperback)
Jason L. Riley; Contributions by John McWhorter, Glenn C. Loury
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