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...Britain had seized portions of China, the British had also pursued their increasingly nasty war against the Boers in South Africa, and the U.S. had been suppressing that rebellion in the Philippines. In response, Twain published in the New York Herald a brief, bitter "Salutation-Speech from the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth...
...doorknobs in order to make ammunition, and they certainly were not the ideal houseguests. But their humble abode still stands, the oldest building at Harvard and the second-oldest academic building in the country (behind the Christopher Wren building at the College of William and Mary). During the nineteenth century, Mass. Hall was used as dormitory, office, and administrative space. In the 1920s it was converted back into a dormitory, and in 1939 the offices of the president moved from University Hall across the Yard to Mass. Hall. Until 2007, the top two floors of the building held approximately...
Racism doesn’t always prevent minorities from prospering, as Sowell explains in another book, Ethnic America. When Japanese immigrants arrived in California at the end of the nineteenth century, the state government forbade them from owning land. In 1942, the federal government forced over 100,000 Japanese Americans into internment camps. During the upheaval, Japanese Americans lost many of their belongings, worth around $400 million in 1942 dollars...
...hold only several hundred political offices nationwide. Their economic success doesn’t rely on political power. Political success doesn’t always translate into economic success either. The Irish, for example, controlled the police forces and fire departments of most major American cities by the late nineteenth century. For years, they governed capitals like Boston and New York, and blackballed Jews and Italians from their political machines. Still, Sowell notes, “…[in America,] the Irish were the slowest rising of the European ethnic groups...
Ethanol, the love-child of Bush’s bad poll ratings, a White House PR campaign, and the worst type of leap-before-you-look environmentalism, has helped to drive what might be the biggest rise in world food prices since the nineteenth century. The shame of it all is that ethanol isn’t going to clear up our climate change woes. Scientists aren’t even agreed that ethanol is energy efficient to produce and, if it is, it makes more sense to abolish immense trade tariffs and buy cheap corn from Brazil than...