04597nam 2200649Ia 450 991080951210332120200520144314.00-8179-2993-20-8179-2998-3(CKB)2550000001163249(EBL)1370727(SSID)ssj0000874541(PQKBManifestationID)11435855(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000874541(PQKBWorkID)10888064(PQKB)10611648(MiAaPQ)EBC3301914(Au-PeEL)EBL3301914(CaPaEBR)ebr10745326(CaONFJC)MIL545387(OCoLC)829713539(EXLCZ)99255000000116324920020716d2002 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrControversial essays /Thomas Sowell1st ed.Stanford, CA Hoover Institution Press20021 online resource (332 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8179-2992-4 1-306-14136-2 Front Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Part I: Economic Issues; Drugs and Politics; The Real Revolutionaries; India Unbound; Capital Gains and "Trickle Down"; No Sense of Proportion; Headline News; Warrior in a 200-Year War; The Role of the Rich; Perennial Economic Fallacies; Sweatshops at Home and Abroad; Sanity in San Francisco; The End of Montgomery Ward; "Saving" Social Security; Social Security vs. Privatization; Minimum Journalism; Merit and Money; Part II: Racial Issues; Routine Cruelty; Losing the Race; Reparations for Slavery?; The Lessons of IndonesiaBlacks and Bootstraps "Racism" in Word and Deed; Sweeping Success Under the Rug; Sorting By Race; The Magic Word; Race and the New Century; "Access" to Responsibility; Part III: Political Issues; Poverty and the Left; "Useful Idiots"; Facts versus Dogma on Guns; Global Hot Air; "Campaign Finance Reform" Follies; Ugliness in Yosemite; State Stealing; Loving Enemies; Microsoft and Campaign Finance Reform; Lying Statistics; Are We Still Americans?; Pacifism and War; Intended Consequences; Islam and the West; Pandering to the Anointed; Green Bigots versus Human Beings; Another OutrageThe Best of the Century Part IV: Educational Issues; The Wrong Filter; Too Many Ph.D.'s?; "No Excuses"; Back Door Quotas; We Are All "Dropouts"; School to School?; The War Against Boys; "Research" Marches On; Let's Hear It for Unfairness!; Does It Add Up?; Diversity versus "Diversity"; Choosing A College; A Painful History; "Forced to Volunteer"; Drugging Children; Goodbye to Sara and Benjamin?; Success Concealing Failure; The Old Neighborhood; Wasting Minds; The "Non-Profit" Halo; Do Facts Matter?; Do Facts Matter? Part II; Part V: Legal Issues; Property Rites; Love Those Killers!Microsoft and Anti-Trust "Law"Lessons Not Learned; Law on Trial; Aborted Knowledge; Murder is Murder; McVeigh and the Death Penalty; Part VI: Social Issues; Boomers and Boomerangs; Deep Trouble from Shallow People; Thanksgiving and "Fairness"; Was the Ball Juiced?; The Dangers of "Equality"; Is the Family Becoming Extinct?; Life at the Bottom; Gay Marriage; The Einstein Syndrome; Loose Lips; "The Duty to Die"; Shocked by the Obvious; Families and Dictators; The "Autism" Dragnet; Racial Profiling of Authors; Chandra Levy Clues; Barry and the Babe; Media Fraud; The Insulation of the LeftW. Glenn Campbell (1924-2001) Part VII: Random Thoughts; Random ThoughtsOne of conservatism's most articulate voices dissects today's most important economic, racial, political, education, legal, and social issues, sharing his entertaining and thought-provoking insights on a wide range of contentious subjects. --""This book contains an abundance of wisdom on a large number of economic issues."" --Mises ReviewAfrican AmericansSocial conditions1975-MinoritiesUnited StatesSocial conditionsUnited StatesPolitics and government1989-United StatesRace relationsUnited StatesSocial conditions1980-African AmericansSocial conditionsMinoritiesSocial conditions.973.92Sowell Thomas1930-119994MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809512103321Controversial essays4098757UNINA