The Quest for Cosmic Justice

by Thomas Sowell

  Cosmic Justice and Injustice (see also Justice, traditional),

  attraction of cosmic justice,

  cost,

  knowledge requirements,

  meaning,

  power requirements,

  quest for cosmic justice,

  versus traditional justice,

  Cosmos,

  Costs

  and justice,

  third parties,

  Crime,

  justice,

  process costs,

  Culture,

  Czechoslovakia,

  Davis, Richard Allen,

  Decision-makers,

  Definitions,

  Democracy,

  Demography,

  Demonizing,

  Dewey, John,

  Disabilities,

  Discrimination,

  Disgrace,

  Dworkin, Ronald,

  East Africa Railway,

  East Anglia,

  East Indies,

  “Economic power,”

  Education,

  Ego (see Exaltation)

  Einstein, Albert,

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo,

  Encounter,

  Engels, Friedrich,

  England,

  English language,

  Envy,

  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,

  Equality and Inequality,

  aversions to inequality,

  economic,

  equal opportunity,

  genetics,

  importance,

  meanings,

  opportunity,

  performance,

  political,

  process,

  prospects,

  results,

  statistics,

  Eskimos,

  Evidence,

  Exaltation,

  Fairness,

  Families,

  Fault,

  Fiji,

  First World War,

  France,

  France, Anatole,

  Freedom,

  French revolution,

  Friedman, Milton,

  Gender (see Sex)

  Genetics,

  Geography,

  God,

  Creation,

  Judgment Day,

  Guilt,

  Gujaratis,

  Hand, Learned,

  Harrod, Roy,

  Harvard,

  Hayek, Friedrich A.,

  Hispanics,

  Hitler, Adolf,

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell,

  Hong Kong,

  Housing,

  Huguenots,

  Humphrey, Hubert,

  Hungarians,

  Illinois,

  Imperialism,

  Incentives,

  Income and Wealth,

  age,

  “redistribution,”

  statistics,

  India,

  Indochina,

  Indonesia,

  Inequality (see Equality and Inequality)

  Intellectuals,

  Inter-temporal abstractions,

  Ireland,

  Italians,

  Japan,

  Jefferson, Thomas,

  Jews,

  Jiang Zemin,

  Johnson, Lyndon B.,

  Johnson, Paul,

  Judgment Day,

  Justice,

  anti-social,

  categorical priority,

  cosmic justice,

  definition,

  group justice and injustice,

  impartiality,

  meaning,

  process versus results,

  social justice,

  traditional justice,

  Kellogg-Briand Pact,

  Kennedy, John F.,

  Klaas, Polly,

  Knowledge,

  Lausanne Conference,

  Law,

  burden of proof,

  civil rights,

  judges,

  property rights,

  rebuttable presumption,

  rule of law,

  Supreme Court,

  Lebanese,

  Left (see Political left)

  Lenin, V. I.,

  “Level playing field,”

  Lewis, Anthony,

  Life chances (see Prospects)

  Lincoln, Abraham,

  Locarno Conference,

  McGwire, Mark,

  Macmillan, Harold,

  Malaya and Malaysia,

  Mao Zedong,

  Marriage,

  Marx, Karl,

  Mathematics,

  Merit,

  knowledge requirements,

  versus productivity,

  Morality,

  cosmos,

  moral equivalence,

  “through no fault of their own,”

  versus causation,

  Mussolini, Benito,

  Nagel, Thomas,

  Nazis,

  Neiman Marcus,

  New Deal,

  New Zealand,

  Nigeria,

  North Atlantic Treaty Organization,

  Norway,

  Nye, Gerald,

  Olson, Mancur,

  Opportunity (see also Prospects),

  Ostensible beneficiaries,

  Ottoman Empire,

  Oxford University,

  Pacifism,

  Paine, Thomas,

  Paris,

  Pearl Harbor,

  Peirce, Charles Sanders,

  Persian Gulf war,

  Philanthropy,

  Philippines,

  Pittsburgh,

  Pizza,

  Plato,

  Pol Pot,

  Poland,

  Polarization,

  Political left,

  Politics,

  Polynesians,

  The Poor,

  Portugal,

  Power,

  Preferential policies,

  Price controls,

  Primogeniture,

  Privilege,

  Process costs,

  Productivity (see Merit, versus productivity)

  Property,

  Prospects,

  Puerto Rico,

  Race,

  Rawls, John,

  Reagan, Ronald,

  “Rebuttable presumption,”

  Religion,

  Representatives on mission,

  Respect,

  Revolutions,

  Rhodes, Cecil,

  Rhodesia,

  The Rich,

  Riis, Jacob,

  Rio Grand do Sul,

  Robespierre,

  Robinson-Patman Act,

  Rogers, Will,

  Romania,

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.,

  Rules and standards,

  Russell, Bertrand,

  Russia,

  Ruth, Babe,

  San Francisco,

  Scandinavians,

  Scarcity,

  Scholastic Aptitude Test,

  Schumpeter, Joseph A.,

  Scotland,

  Second World War,

  Sex,

  Shaw, George Bernard,

  The Sherman Antitrust Act of

  Simpson, O. J.,

  Singapore,

  Slavery,

  Smith, Adam,

  Social justice (see Justice, social justice)

  Society,

  Socrates,

  Sorting,

  South Africa,

  Soviet Union,

  Springfield,

  Sri Lanka,

  St. Gallen,

  Stalin, Josef V.,

  Standard Oil,

  Stanford University,

  Statue of Liberty,

  Stephen, James Fitzjames,

  Stockholm,

  Supreme Court,

  Switzerland,

  Systemic processes,

  Tamils,

  Tawney, R. H.,

  Taxes,

  Third parties,

  costs,

  decision-makers,

  Thomas, Norman,
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br />   Time (see also Inter-temporal abstracations),

  Tocqueville, Alexis de,

  Treaty of Versailles,

  Tribe, Laurence,

  Truman, Harry S.,

  United States of America,

  Value,

  Vancouver,

  Vietnam,

  Villard, Oswald Garrison,

  Violence,

  Virgin Islands,

  Visions,

  War,

  causes,

  deterrence,

  disarmament,

  futility,

  Warren, Earl,

  Washington, D.C.,

  Washington Naval Agreement of

  Washington Post,

  West Indians,

  Western civilization,

  Western Hemisphere,

  Wizard of Oz,

  World War I (see First World War)

  World War II (see Second World War)

  Yale University,

  Zero-sum processes,