Culture Wars/Current Controversies

Want to End Urban-Rural Conflict? Stop Looking for a Victor

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 2023
Those who value strong families, tight communities, hard work, and spiritual health should favor free trade so that the inputs upon which workers’ livelihoods depend are not artificially scarce; so that tariffs do not drain the purchasing power of consumers whose demand supports industries; so that nations are more reluctant to war with one another; and so that commerce, one of the great engines of social harmony, is not hindered between neighbors kept apart by political boundaries.
– J.D. Tuccille,
“Want to End Urban-Rural Conflict? Stop Looking for a Victor.” [2019]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
July 11, 2023

Why Shouldn’t a University Be Free to Adopt Affirmative Action?
Not surprisingly, right-wingers are celebrating the Supreme Court’s decision to declare affirmative-action policies at American universities to be unconstitutional. In the process, conservatives fail to recognize that they are, at the same time, celebrating the further destruction of American liberty and private-property rights. After all, why shouldn’t a private university, like Harvard, be free to establish any policy it wants for admitting students? …
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