Controversial essays / Thomas Sowell
| Author(s): | Sowell, Thomas, 1930- |
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| Subjects: | African Americans--Social conditions--1975- Minorities--United States--Social conditions United States--Politics and government--1989- United States--Race relations United States--Social conditions--1980- |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, 2002 |
| Series: | Hoover Institution Press publication 511 |
| LC Classification: | E |
| Table of Contents: | Preface Pt. I. Economic Issues Drugs and Politics 3 The Real Revolutionaries 6 India Unbound 9 Capital Gains and "Trickle Down" 12 No Sense of Proportion 15 Headline News 18 Warrior in a 200-Year War 21 The Role of the Rich 24 Perennial Economic Fallacies 27 Sweatshops at Home and Abroad 30 Sanity in San Francisco 33 The End of Montgomery Ward 36 "Saving" Social Security 39 Social Security vs. Privatization 42 Minimum Journalism 45 Merit and Money 48 Pt. II. Racial Issues Routine Cruelty 53 Losing the Race 56 Reparations for Slavery? 59 The Lessons of Indonesia 62 Blacks and Bootstraps 65 "Racism" in Word and Deed 68 Sweeping Success Under the Rug 71 Sorting By Race 77 The Magic Word 77 Race and the New Century 80 "Access" to Responsibility 83 Pt. III. Political Issues Poverty and the Left 89 "Useful Idiots" 92 Facts versus Dogma on Guns 95 Global Hot Air 98 "Campaign Finance Reform" Follies 101 Ugliness in Yosemite 104 State Stealing 107 Loving Enemies 110 Microsoft and Campaign Finance Reform 113 Lying Statistics 116 Are We Still Americans? 119 Pacifism and War 122 Intended Consequences 125 Islam and the West 128 Pandering to the Anointed 131 Green Bigots versus Human Beings 134 Another Outrage 137 The Best of the Century 140 Pt. IV. Educational Issues The Wrong Filter 145 Too Many Ph.D.s? 148 "No Excuses" 151 Back Door Quotas 154 We Are All "Dropouts" 157 School to School? 160 The War Against Boys 163 "Research" Marches On 166 Let's Hear It for Unfairness! 169 Does It Add Up? 172 Diversity versus "Diversity" 175 Choosing A College 178 A Painful History 181 "Forced to Volunteer" 184 Drugging Children 187 Goodbye to Sara and Benjamin? 190 Success Concealing Failure 193 The Old Neighborhood 196 Wasting Minds 199 The "Non-Profit" Halo 202 Do Facts Matter? 205 Do Facts Matter? Part II 208 Pt. V. Legal Issues Property Rites 213 Love Those Killers! 216 Microsoft and Anti-Trust "Law" 219 Lessons Not Learned 222 Law on Trial 225 Aborted Knowledge 228 Murder is Murder 231 McVeigh and the Death Penalty 234 Pt. VI. Social Issues Boomers and Boomerangs 239 Deep Trouble from Shallow People 242 Thanksgiving and "Fairness" 245 Was the Ball Juiced? 248 The Dangers of "Equality" 251 Is the Family Becoming Extinct? 254 Life at the Bottom 257 Gay Marriage 260 The Einstein Syndrome 263 Loose Lips 266 "The Duty to Die" 269 Shocked by the Obvious 272 Families and Dictators 275 The "Autism" Dragnet 278 Racial Profiling of Authors 281 Chandra Levy Clues 284 Barry and the Babe 287 Media Fraud 290 The Insulation of the Left 293 W. Glenn Campbell (1924-2001) 296 Pt. VII. Random Thoughts Random Thoughts 299 |
| Notes: | LCCN: 2002027327 ISBN: 0817929924 (alk. paper) |
| Physical Description: | x, 321 p. ; 23 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 50272863 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0817929924 |