Controversial Essays by Sowell, Thomas -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page 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 Blacks 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 The 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 Left W. Glenn Campbell (1924–2001)

Part VII: Random Thoughts

Random Thoughts