Ever Wonder Why? And Other Controversial Essays

Ever Wonder Why? And Other Controversial Essays
by Thomas Sowell

Ever Wonder Why? And Other Controversial Essays
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Author: Thomas Sowell
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-11-13
ISBN: 0817947523
Number of pages: 460
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press

Book Reviews of Ever Wonder Why? And Other Controversial Essays

Book Review: I've often wondered why more people don't wonder
Summary: 5 Stars

A very entertaining look at our modern culture. Each essay challenges us to think about issues that should be obvious, but apparantly aren't for a large segment of the population. It seems as though we have met the enemy, and it is us. A real eye opener, I'd be very interested in seeing what all of these annointed folks would come up with to counter Mr. Sowell's views.

Summary of Ever Wonder Why? And Other Controversial Essays

"The desire of individuals and groups to puff themselves up by imposing their vision on other people is a recurring theme in the culture wars"

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, never boring, 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 with his characteristically unswerving candor.

Sowell skewers the "mealy mouth media" that calls terrorists "insurgents" and rioters "demonstrators." He reveals how "the idiocy of relevance" in learning has been particularly destructive in the education of minority students at all levels. He explains how a free market and a strict construction of the 14th Amendment would never have permitted the laws that asked Rosa Parks to give up her seat to a white man. And he clarifies the confusion between equal opportunity and equal results that resides behind many kinds of "spoiled brat politics."

With Ever Wonder Why?--drawn from the best of his popular syndicated newspaper columns--Sowell once again takes dead aim at the self-righteous and self-important forces in government, media, education, and other areas of our society, offering the thoughtful perceptions, commonsense insights, and straightforward honesty we have come to expect from one of conservatism's most articulate voices.

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Among his published works are Basic Economics, Late Talking Children, and Race and Culture. He has also published in both academic journals and the popular media including Newsweek, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and 150 newspapers that carry his nationally syndicated column.

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