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| 21 April 2004 |
| 1. ACTON COMMENTARY |
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“Modern Myths about Race and School Performance”
by Anthony B. Bradley
 Next
month’s 50th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education
will rightly occasion much soul searching about race and
academic performance. But blacks and other under performing
minority groups will not be helped by more diversity
programs and “resegregation hysteria,” Anthony Bradley
observes. What will help? Hard work and a sense of
individual responsibility.Acton Web Poll: Does
federal education spending need to increase?
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“From Poverty to Property” by Karen Woods and
Rev. Jamé Bolds
 Reauthorization
of the welfare reform act is on hold over a dispute about
raising the federal minimum wage. But, as Karen Woods and Jame
Bolds argue, policymakers should be helping the poor build
assets, not doing those things that make it more difficult for
employers to put needy people to work. |
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| 2. THIS WEEK AT ACTON.ORG |
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Vision
into Practice. A new conference from the Center for Effective
Compassion
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Acton’s CEC is hosting an intensive, one-day
conference in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Friday, June 4, that will
focus on civil society's responsibility to help the poor. Policy
makers, philanthropists, foundation grantors and grantees,
grassroots community, and faith-based service providers will
come away with the tools and skill sets necessary to improve
programs and better measure results. Sign up today. |
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| 3. ACTON NEWSMAKERS |
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| 4. FOOD FOR THOUGHT FROM ACROSS THE WEB |
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“Commonsense Ethics” by Ralph McInerny,
Claremont Review of Books
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In this review of J. Budziszewski’s
What We Can’t Not Know, Ralph McInerny revisits the
question of common self-evident truths that cannot be denied
without leading to incoherence. Writes McInerny, “One of the
difficulties any appeal to common sense must face is that a lot
of nonsense is commonly believed.” |
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| 5. THIS WEEK AT THE ACTON BOOK SHOPPE |
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The Limits of Government: Graduate Essays on the Proper Role of
the State by Schansberg, Davenport, Hagins, Schut,
Muras, Reichert
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Winning essays from the 1999 Lord Acton Essay
Contest, with an introduction by D. Eric Schansberg. The essays
included in this book are based on the following quotation from
Lord Acton: “There are many things the government can't do -
many good puposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the
enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot
enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert
the people.” |
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| 6. IN THE LIBERAL TRADITION |
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Orestes Brownson (1803–1876)
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“Politicians may do as they please, so long as
they violate no rule of right, no principle of justice, no law
of God; but in no world, in no order, or condition, have men the
right to do wrong.” |
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