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Monthly Archives: March 2023
Ethnic Diversity and Social Trust: A Narrative and Meta-Analytical Review
Here are some highlights from this 2020 paper in the Annual Review of Political Science: * Does ethnic diversity erode social trust? Continued immigration and corresponding growing ethnic diversity have prompted this essential question for modern societies, but few clear … Continue reading
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Diversity and Its Limits
Charles Murray writes for Claremont Review of Books: * The crisis of American democracy demands a clear-eyed understanding of the ways in which differences in ethnic groups and some sources of political polarization are never going to be resolved. * … Continue reading
Teaching The Holocaust
From the Claremont Review of Books: * I have observed substantial variations among schools in their approach to the Holocaust. Jewish schools are more likely to place the Holocaust in historical context by reviewing the long history of European anti-Semitism, … Continue reading
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The lights are going off in South Africa
Helen Andrews writes: * “We blacks saw businesses we thought had no challenges,” a failing farmer tells her. “But we were lying to ourselves.” There you have it in a nutshell. Black South Africans thought their white neighbors were rich … Continue reading
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California’s Political Dysfunction
From the Claremont Review of Books: * “California is experiencing—coincidentally—both a drought emergency and a flood emergency,” said the Department of Water Resources director. Only in CA. When a state is afflicted by too little water and too much water, … Continue reading
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