Florida Conservative

The modern call to eliminate billionaires reflects an underlying anxiety about the direction of contemporary civilization. Yet the problem is not simply the existence of great wealth. It is the cultural and economic order that produces particular forms of wealth and rewards particular forms of human activity.

One of the most enduring lessons of the Jim Crow era is that civil-rights violations often do not arise from openly unlawful statutes, but from selective enforcement by officials cloaked in discretion.