On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King Jr. stood before a crowd of nearly a quarter-million people. The moment is iconic. His words — which may already be echoing in your mind — captured something vitally important: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live … Continue reading Why ‘Colorblindness’ on Race Matters More than Ever
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Who was Ayn Rand? In 2009, as if to confirm the unmet demand for a Rand biography, two books about her life were published: Jennifer Burns’s Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right and Anne C. Heller’s Ayn Rand and the World She Made. Marketed as objective, non-partisan accounts, both garnered extraordinary acclaim. Burns’s book was … Continue reading “Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right” Is Worse than Incompetent