A fundamental difference between left and right concerns how each assesses public policies.

The right asks, does it do good?

The left is more likely to ask a different question.

Take the minimum wage, for example.

In 1987, the New York Times editorialized against any minimum wage.

The title of the editorial said it all, the right minimum wage, zero dollars and zero

cents.

There's a virtual consensus among economists wrote the Times editorial that the minimum

wage is an idea whose time has passed, raising the minimum wage by a substantial amount

with price working people out of the job market.

Why did the New York Times editorialize against the minimum wage?

Does it ask the question, does it do good?

But 27 years later, the same New York Times editorial page wrote the very opposite of

what it had written in 1987 and called for a major increase in the minimum wage.

In that time, the Times editorial page had moved further and further left and was now preoccupied

not with the question, does it do good?

But with the question, does it feel good?

And it feels good to raise poor people's minimum wage.

A second example is affirmative action.

Study after study and more importantly, common sense and facts.

Has shown the negative effects that race-based affirmative action has had on many black students.

Boring college admission standards for black applicants has ensured a number of awful

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