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Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays
Thomas Sowell takes on a range of legal, social, racial, educational, and economic issues-along with "the culture wars"-in this latest collection of his controversial, always thought-provoking essays. From "gun control myths" to "mealy mouth media" to "free lunch medicine," Sowell gets to the heart of the matters we all care about wi...more
Paperback, 460 pages
Published
November 9th 2006
by Hoover Institution Press
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Хубаво четиво за запознаване с идеологията на американските консерватори.
Томас Соуел описва общество, в което интелектуалците са леви, инженерите са десни, а държавата има твърде много власт да се меси където не й е работата. Безотговорни хора имат власт да влияят на икономиката, където твори глупост след глупост, и на образованието, където натрапват отглеждат поколение от мързеливци и илитерати. Наред с това обяснява възгледите си за гей браковете, притежаването на оръжие, живеенето...more
Томас Соуел описва общество, в което интелектуалците са леви, инженерите са десни, а държавата има твърде много власт да се меси където не й е работата. Безотговорни хора имат власт да влияят на икономиката, където твори глупост след глупост, и на образованието, където натрапват отглеждат поколение от мързеливци и илитерати. Наред с това обяснява възгледите си за гей браковете, притежаването на оръжие, живеенето...more
Collection of Mr. Stowell's columns and articles grouped by general topic (economic issues, social issues, racial issues, etc.). As with many collections of previously published work, this one gets pretty repetitive and could easily have been pared down to less than 460 pages without losing much content.
While I have significant libertarian leanings, and I'm especially sympathetic on educational issues and property rights, Mr. Stowell seemed to do much more griping and complaining th...more
While I have significant libertarian leanings, and I'm especially sympathetic on educational issues and property rights, Mr. Stowell seemed to do much more griping and complaining th...more
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A good collection of common political/economical/educational/cultural issues plaguing America today. Thomas Sowell is himself an immigrant from India, so I think his opinion is often of greater depth then many other syndicated columnists.
This is possibly the greatest commentary on politics, liberals, and other do gooders who are underming America.
Book of Libertarian/Conservative essays, they essays are good but as with any book of this format there is a lot of repetition of ideas between essays.
Excellent and logical. What I come to expect from Sowell. I do prefer his pure economics books more, but this was still very good.
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Thomas Sowell is an American economist, social commentator, and author of dozens of books. He often writes from an economically laissez-faire perspective. He is currently a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In 1990, he won the Francis Boyer Award, presented by the American Enterprise Institute. In 2002 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal for prolific scholars...more
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