Controversial Essays

By: Thomas Sowell

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Paperback | 30 September 2002 | Edition Number 2

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Thomas Sowell takes some of his most popular newspaper columns and examines the broader questions beyond the events which inspired them. One 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.

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Preface	p. ix
Economic Issues
Drugs and Politics	p. 3
The Real Revolutionaries	p. 6
India Unbound	p. 9
Capital Gains and "Trickle Down"	p. 12
No Sense of Proportion	p. 15
Headline News	p. 18
Warrior in a 200-Year War	p. 21
The Role of the Rich	p. 24
Perennial Economic Fallacies	p. 27
Sweatshops at Home and Abroad	p. 30
Sanity in San Francisco	p. 33
The End of Montgomery Ward	p. 36
"Saving" Social Security	p. 39
Social Security vs. Privatization	p. 42
Minimum Journalism	p. 45
Merit and Money	p. 48
Racial Issues
Routine Cruelty	p. 53
Losing the Race	p. 56
Reparations for Slavery?	p. 59
The Lessons of Indonesia	p. 62
Blacks and Bootstraps	p. 65
"Racism" in Word and Deed	p. 68
Sweeping Success Under the Rug	p. 71
Sorting By Race	p. 74
The Magic Word	p. 77
Race and the New Century	p. 80
"Access" to Responsibility	p. 83
Political Issues
Poverty and the Left	p. 89
"Useful Idiots"	p. 92
Facts versus Dogma on Guns	p. 95
Global Hot Air	p. 98
"Campaign Finance Reform" Follies	p. 101
Ugliness in Yosemite	p. 104
State Stealing	p. 107
Loving Enemies	p. 110
Microsoft and Campaign Finance Reform	p. 113
Lying Statistics	p. 116
Are We Still Americans?	p. 119
Pacifism and War	p. 122
Intended Consequences	p. 125
Islam and the West	p. 128
Pandering to the Anointed	p. 131
Green Bigots versus Human Beings	p. 134
Another Outrage	p. 137
The Best of the Century	p. 140
Educational Issues
The Wrong Filter	p. 145
Too Many Ph.D.s?	p. 148
"No Excuses"	p. 151
Back Door Quotas	p. 154
We Are All "Dropouts"	p. 157
School to School?	p. 160
The War Against Boys	p. 163
"Research" Marches On	p. 166
Let's Hear It for Unfairness!	p. 169
Does It Add Up?	p. 172
Diversity versus "Diversity"	p. 175
Choosing A College	p. 178
A Painful History	p. 181
"Forced to Volunteer"	p. 184
Drugging Children	p. 187
Goodbye to Sara and Benjamin?	p. 190
Success Concealing Failure	p. 193
The Old Neighborhood	p. 196
Wasting Minds	p. 199
The "Non-Profit" Halo	p. 202
Do Facts Matter?	p. 205
Do Facts Matter? Part II	p. 208
Legal Issues
Property Rites	p. 213
Love Those Killers!	p. 216
Microsoft and Anti-Trust "Law"	p. 219
Lessons Not Learned	p. 222
Law on Trial	p. 225
Aborted Knowledge	p. 228
Murder is Murder	p. 231
McVeigh and the Death Penalty	p. 234
Social Issues
Boomers and Boomerangs	p. 239
Deep Trouble from Shallow People	p. 242
Thanksgiving and "Fairness"	p. 245
Was the Ball Juiced?	p. 248
The Dangers of "Equality"	p. 251
Is the Family Becoming Extinct?	p. 254
Life at the Bottom	p. 257
Gay Marriage	p. 260
The Einstein Syndrome	p. 263
Loose Lips	p. 266
"The Duty to Die"	p. 269
Shocked by the Obvious	p. 272
Families and Dictators	p. 275
The "Autism" Dragnet	p. 278
Racial Profiling of Authors	p. 281
Chandra Levy Clues	p. 284
Barry and the Babe	p. 287
Media Fraud	p. 290
The Insulation of the Left	p. 293
W. Glenn Campbell (1924-2001)	p. 296
Random Thoughts
Random Thoughts	p. 299
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