LEADER 04739nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910953677103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780817929930 010 $a0817929932 010 $a9780817929985 010 $a0817929983 035 $a(CKB)2550000001163249 035 $a(EBL)1370727 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000874541 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11435855 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000874541 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10888064 035 $a(PQKB)10611648 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301914 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301914 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10745326 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL545387 035 $a(OCoLC)829713539 035 $a(Perlego)970576 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001163249 100 $a20020716d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aControversial essays /$fThomas Sowell 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aStanford, CA $cHoover Institution Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (332 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780817929923 311 08$a0817929924 311 08$a9781306141369 311 08$a1306141362 327 $aFront 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 Indonesia 327 $aBlacks 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 Outrage 327 $aThe 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! 327 $aMicrosoft 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 Left 327 $aW. Glenn Campbell (1924-2001) Part VII: Random Thoughts; Random Thoughts 330 $aOne 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 Review 606 $aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions$y1975- 606 $aMinorities$zUnited States$xSocial conditions 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1989- 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$y1980- 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions 615 0$aMinorities$xSocial conditions. 676 $a973.92 700 $aSowell$b Thomas$f1930-$0119994 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953677103321 996 $aControversial essays$94361981 997 $aUNINA