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George Will has an excellent column today on the current version of the enduring debate between liberalism and conservatism over freedom and equality. Will notes the tendency of liberals “to infer unequal opportunities from the fact of unequal outcomes” (that, by the way, is why they shout “structural racism” whenever they can’t find evidence of [...]

A reader recommended this article by Jim Sollisch, a creative director at an advertising agency, from the Christian Science Monitor, and a good recommendation it was. Read the whole thing, but meanwhile here’s an excerpt: My wife’s daughter Kaley just graduated from Cleveland Heights High School, a fine school in one of America’s best inner-ring [...]

Harvard’s Henry Louis Gates, Jr., giving the commencement address at Kentucky’s Berea College, appeared to join Barack Obama’s abandoment of race for class. You will recall (if not, refresh your memory here) that recently Sen. Barack Obama announced that his daughters, because they are “pretty advantaged,” should not be given any preferential treatment because of [...]

In cultural news from the Left Coast, the Mendocino Beacon reports that the “‘I want my democracy back’ message resonated in at least three documentary films shown at the Mendocino Film Festival that ended Sunday.” One of those three is of special interest here. United States District Judge Thelton Henderson, an African-American who received his [...]

Writing today about the conservative backlash against the proposed new immigration law reform, Glenn Reynolds notes, in two posts, the divide between elites, including especially political leaders, and ordinary citizens in their attitude toward law. Here, he notes the disconnect between Washington officialdom’s view of citizenship, and the view held by actual citizens, something that [...]