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  1. A Special Report
    "Affirmative Action"
    A Worldwide Disaster
    Commentary, December 1989, pp. 21-41
  2. Politics
    Affirmative Action and Pious Fraud
    Inquiry, August 21, 1978, pp. 10-12
  3. Affirmative Action Around the World (2004)
    An Empirical Study
    3 Reviews
  4. Affirmative Action Reconsidered (1976)
    Was It Necessary in Academia?
    1 Review
  5. "Affirmative Action" Reconsidered
    The Public Interest, Winter 1976, pp. 47-65
  6. Affirmative Action's Textbook Case
    Half a world away in a cultural and historical setting completely unlike our own, race-...
    California Political Review, Winter 1991, pp. 14-17
  7. American Ethnic Groups (1978)
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  8. Among the Intellectualoids
    Multicultural Instruction
    The American Spectator, April 1993, pp. 47-48
  9. Applied Economics (2003)
    Thinking Beyond Stage One
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  10. Are Quotas Good for Blacks?
    Commentary, June 1978, pp. 39-43
  11. Basic Economics (2001)
    A Citizens Guide to the Economy, Revised and Expanded
    4 Reviews, 4 Readable
  12. To the Battlefield
    National Review, December 19, 2005, p. 97
  13. Black Education: Myths and Tragedies (1972)
    5 Reviews, 1 Readable
  14. Black Excellence
    The Case of Dunbar High School
    The Public Interest, Spring 1974, pp. 3-20
  15. Black Rednecks and White Liberals (2005)
    5 Reviews, 3 Readable
  16. [+]
    The Book Case (Review)
    A Nightmare Relived
    1. The Nightmare Years, 1930-1940 by William L. Shirer
    Reason, May 1985, pp. 54-57
  17. By the Numbers
    Policy Review, Winter 1982, pp. 9-28
  18. [+]
    The Changing Faces of Poverty (Review)
    Years of Poverty, Years of Plenty
    1. Years of Poverty, Years of Plenty by Greg J. Duncan
    Reason, December 1985, pp. 46-47
  19. Choosing a College (1989)
    A Guide for Parents and Students
    3 Reviews, 2 Readable
  20. Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality (1984)
    6 Reviews, 3 Readable
  21. Classical Economics Reconsidered (1974)
    1 Review
  22. Compassion versus Guilt and Other Essays (1987)
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  23. A Conflict of Visions (1987)
    Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
    12 Reviews, 5 Readable
  24. Conquests and Cultures (1998)
    An International History
    7 Reviews, 3 Readable
  25. Controversial Essays (2002)
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  26. [+]
    Culture and Ethnicity (Review)
    The Ethnic Myth, by Stephen Steinberg
    1. The Ethnic Myth by Stephen Steinberg
    Policy Review, Fall 1981, pp. 169-170
  27. Books & Arts
    [+]
    The Day Cornell Died (Review)
    Cornell '69, by Donald Alexander Downs
    1. Cornell '69 by Donald Alexander Downs
    The Weekly Standard, May 3, 1999, pp. 31-33
  28. 'Down from Liberalism'
    An Exchange
    The New York Review of Books, September 29, 1988, p. 83
  29. Economic Facts and Fallacies (2007)
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  30. The Economics and Politics of Race (1983)
    An International Perspective
    9 Reviews, 3 Readable
  31. Essays and Data on American Ethnic Groups (1978)
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  32. Ethnic America (1981)
    A History
    13 Reviews, 3 Readable
  33. Ethnic America
    An Exchange
    The New York Review of Books, June 16, 1983, pp. 47-50
  34. Ethnicity and IQ
    A leading scholar on the interplay of race and culture opens a new avenue in the debate...
    The American Spectator, February 1995, pp. 30-37
  35. Ethnicity in a Changing America
    Daedalus, Winter 1978, pp. 213-238
  36. [+]
    The First 'Black Conservative' (Review)
    Rac(e)ing to the Right, by George S. Schuyler and Jeffrey B. Leak
    1. Rac(e)ing to the Right by George S. Schuyler and Jeffrey B. Leak
    National Review, August 20, 2001, p. 45
  37. Book Reviews
    [+]
    Friedrich Hayek: A Biography (Review)
    Friedrich Hayek: A Biography, by Alan O. Ebenstein
    1. Friedrich Hayek: A Biography by Alan O. Ebenstein
    The American Spectator, July 2001, pp. 122-123
  38. [+]
    General (Review)
    The Classical Economists, by D.P. O'Brien
    1. The Classical Economists by D.P. O'Brien
    The American Historical Review, December 1976, p. 1069
  39. Guest Editorial
    An English Primer
    National Review, December 31, 1985, pp. 17-21
  40. The Housing Boom and Bust (2009)
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  41. Education and the "Ghetto" School
    I. Patterns of Black Excellence
    The Public Interest, Spring 1976, pp. 26-58
  42. Inside American Education (1992)
    The Decline, the Deception, the Dogmas
    6 Reviews, 3 Readable
  43. [+]
    Inside American Education (Review)
    Inside American Education, by Thomas Sowell
    1. Inside American Education by Thomas Sowell
    The American Spectator, May 1993, pp. 66-67
  44. Books in Review
    [+]
    Intellectual Royalist (Review)
    Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went, by John Kenneth Galbraith
    1. Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went by John Kenneth Galbraith
    Commentary, December 1975, pp. 82-83
  45. Knowledge and Decisions (1980)
    13 Reviews, 7 Readable
  46. Late-Talking Children (1997)
  47. Letters
    Commentary, April 1977, pp. 6-24
  48. Letters
    Commentary, February 1979, pp. 4-22
  49. Letters
    Commentary, August 1980, pp. 4-16
  50. Letters
    Commentary, April 1981, pp. 4-28
  51. Letters
    Commentary, April 1990, pp. 2-18
  52. Letters
    Commentary, July 1990, pp. 2-14
  53. Letters
    Commentary, November 1990, pp. 2-16
  54. Letters
    Commentary, December 1992, pp. 4-20
  55. "Live" with TAE
    Not many academics become influential both as a scholarly theorizer and as a popular wr...
    The American Enterprise, September 2004, pp. 14-19
  56. Markets and Minorities (1981)
    7 Reviews, 2 Readable
  57. Markets and Minorities
    The Uses of Government for Racial Equality
    National Review, September 4, 1981, pp. 1009-1013
  58. Marxism: Philosophy and Economics (1985)
    5 Reviews, 2 Readable
  59. Migrations and Cultures (1996)
    A World View
    7 Reviews, 3 Readable
  60. Features
    Misshapen Statistics on Racial Quotas
    Racial preferences in college admissions are good for minorities and society at large, ...
    The American Spectator, April 1999, pp. 24-27
  61. [+]
    The Moral Glue (Review)
    The Fatal Conceit, by Friedrich A. Hayek and W.W. Bartley III
    1. The Fatal Conceit by Friedrich A. Hayek and W.W. Bartley III
    Reason, December 1988, pp. 35-36
  62. Myths about Minorities
    Commentary, August 1979, pp. 33-37
  63. The Nuance Excuse
    The Weekly Standard, February 3, 1997, pp. 16-17
  64. [+]
    On Race and Class in America (Review)
    The Declining Significance of Race, by William Julius Wilson
    1. The Declining Significance of Race by William Julius Wilson
    Policy Review, Winter 1979, pp. 120-123
  65. On the Higher Learning in America
    Some Comments
    The Public Interest, Spring 1990, pp. 68-78
  66. A Personal Odyssey (2000)
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  67. Departments
    Perspective
    Income "Distribution"
    The Freeman, January 1996, p. 2
  68. Pink and Brown People (1982)
    And Other Controversial Essays
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  69. Preferential Policies (1990)
    An International Perspective
    9 Reviews, 5 Readable
  70. The Quest for Cosmic Justice (1999)
    7 Reviews, 3 Readable
  71. Race and Culture: A World View (1994)
    13 Reviews, 2 Readable
  72. Race and Economics (1975)
    7 Reviews, 3 Readable
  73. Readings
    The Fallacy of Racial Politics
    The Harpers Monthly, June 1984, p. 22
  74. Reason Interview
    Reason, December 1980, pp. 44-51
  75. [+]
    Return of the Native (Review)
    Out of America, by Keith B. Richburg
    1. Out of America by Keith B. Richburg
    National Review, April 21, 1997, p. 74
  76. [+]
    The Quiet Tax (Review)
    On Economics and Society, by Harry G. Johnson
    1. On Economics and Society by Harry G. Johnson
    The American Spectator, October 1975, p. 26
  77. [+]
    Religion and the Fall of Capitalism (Review)
    Today's Immigrants, Their Stories, by Thomas Kessner and Betty Boyd Caroli
    1. Today's Immigrants, Their Stories by Thomas Kessner and Betty Boyd Caroli
    Policy Review, Winter 1983, pp. 193-194
  78. Rose Bird on Trial
    Will the rest of her gang get away
    The American Spectator, September 1986, pp. 23-26
  79. Articles
    The Scandal of College Tuition
    Commentary, August 1992, pp. 23-26
  80. Second Thoughts About the Third World
    Why imperialism, overcrowding, and resource scarcity do not cause poverty
    The Harpers Monthly, November 1983, pp. 34-42
  81. Social Science: The Public Disenchantment
    The American Scholar, Summer 1976, pp. 354-355
  82. [+]
    Special Annual Book Section (Review)
    Standing Fast against Planning and Poverty
    1. Reality and Rhetoric by P.T. Bauer
    Reason, December 1984, pp. 45-46
  83. Thoughts and Details on Poverty
    Policy Review, Summer 1981, pp. 11-26
  84. Ethnicity
    Three Black Histories
    The Wilson Quarterly, Winter 1979, pp. 96-106
  85. Transcript: Words Worth Repeating
    Educational "Fairness" That Is Unjust to Those It Aids.
    The American Enterprise, March 2000, p. 46
  86. Tuition Tax Credit Proposals
    Some Additional Views
    Policy Review, Spring 1978, pp. 79-90
  87. The Unheavenly City Revisited
    Edward C. Banfield's classic critique of the American city is even more powerful today ...
    The American Spectator, February 1994, pp. 45-48
  88. The Vision of the Anointed (1995)
    Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy
    5 Reviews, 3 Readable
  89. The Vision of the Anointed
    National Review, July 31, 1995, pp. 47-49
  90. Visions of Man
    An excerpt from the new book by a leading political economist
    Reason, April 1987, pp. 38-45
  91. Visions of War & Peace
    Encounter, December 1987, pp. 40-49
  92. Weasel Word on Immigration
    The Social Contract, Fall 1997, pp. 23-24
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