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How to Judge the Founders Fairly Without Excusing Slavery or Erasing Them Many Founders held slaves and also wrote the principles that ended slavery; a numbered argument for holding both truths and answering the charge of hypocrisy. The Constitution Is Not Illegitimate Because Its Framers Held Slaves Many Framers held slaves. The abolitionists, Lincoln and the civil rights movement used their Constitution to end slavery and segregation anyway. Was America Founded in 1619 or 1776 and What the Historical Record Shows The claim that protecting slavery was a primary reason for independence, stated at its strongest and then tested against the record, point by point. What If Every League Abolished the Scoreboard in the Name of Equity A labelled satire follows equal outcomes into the game itself, with handicaps, shared trophies and no score, then explains opportunity versus outcome. Justice Harlan Said Our Constitution Is Color-Blind in 1896, and He Was Right A close reading of Harlan's Plessy dissent, the case behind it, and why its principle, not race-conscious policy, is the road to equality. Corporate Activism Breaks the Deal Between a Company and Its Customers Companies that take political sides spend owners' money on executives' opinions. Friedman's 1970 essay and the stakeholder case, argued fairly. What the 2023 Beer Boycott Taught Corporate America About Its Customers A 2023 beer promotion cost a brand its title as top seller, and the lesson was about respecting customers, not about any person. The case, in full. Colorblind Law Is Not a Code Word, It Is Harlan's Dissent Made Good Colorblindness was the civil-rights movement's own legal argument, and the strongest objection to it fails against Harlan, the Brown briefs and the 1964 Act. Seven Myths About DEI Programs, Including That Critics Oppose Diversity Seven common claims about DEI programs tested against the Civil Rights Act, the Fourteenth Amendment and the 2023 admissions ruling, with a verdict on each. Sixty Years of Federal Affirmative Action Orders, From 1961 to 2025 Contractor affirmative action was built by executive order, never by statute, and an executive order ended it. Eight dated entries show how. DEI Statements Were Loyalty Oaths, and the Old Oath Cases Show Why Diversity statements in academic hiring work like the loyalty oaths the Supreme Court struck down. The oath cases explain why some schools dropped them. Language Policing Turns Ordinary Words Into Offences, and It Never Ends Lists of forbidden words keep growing because their authors are rewarded for finding offences. Stanford's 2022 list shows why the logic has no stopping point. How DEI Offices Grew on Campus and What Closing Them Requires Diversity bureaucracies spread into hiring, training and student life, and states that closed them learned a statute must reach functions, not names. What to Do When an Online Mob Comes for Your Job, Step by Step A numbered playbook for a lawful-opinion pile-on at work, in order: stop posting, preserve evidence, read your papers, ask in writing, get counsel. Seven Myths About Cancel Culture, Starting With the One That Says It Isn't Real Seven comforting claims defenders of online mobs rely on, from it does not exist to only the powerful suffer, tested against the record with a verdict on each. Equity Versus Equality, Why Swapping One Word Changes Everything The case for equity at its strongest, then five answers showing why equal treatment is the only rule a free people can administer. Cancel Culture Has No Judge, No Jury and No Statute of Limitations Public shaming campaigns punish without the notice, hearing and proportionality the common law built, and those protections exist for good reasons. Sowell on Cosmic Justice, and Why Fair Rules Beat Engineered Results Thomas Sowell's 1999 book separates fair rules from the dream of undoing every accident of birth, and only the first is compatible with liberty. The Melting Pot Was a Good Idea and the Salad Bowl Is a Worse One Assimilation made Americans of millions and gave their children full membership; the salad bowl keeps the pieces apart. The argument and the best objection.