Tag: Thomas Sowell
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Poverty Feasts on Anti-Poverty Sentiment
“In politics, the great nonsequitur of our time is that (1) things are not right, and that (2) the government should make them right.”— Thomas Sowell (The Quest for Cosmic Justice) Poverty is a persistent pest. It is the natural state of the animal kingdom, and humans alone have learned to overcome it. In fact,…
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Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell, by Jason Riley
Introduction: Jason Riley’s biography of Thomas Sowell is more of an intellectual biography. Much of what could be found here is material one does not find in Sowell’s own autobiography, A Personal Odyssey (2000). The book covers his main intellectual achievements in the fields of the sociology of knowledge, his analysis of political dispositions and…
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A Brief Review of Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?, by Thomas Sowell
One of Thomas Sowell’s earlier books, ‘Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?’ is a book about the Regression Fallacy. Simply put, this fallacy states that it is logically impermissible to claim that a change in the states of affairs X occurred because of a change in policy or behavior, Y. It is a derivative of the…
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A Brief Review of The Quest for Cosmic Justice, by Thomas Sowell
This is my second book by Thomas Sowell, and it is a treasure chest. I read it twice in the past, and now through Audible. It contains four short books (or four long essays) whose main themes are within the disciplines of political philosophy, sociology, history, and legal scholarship, but each chapter contains an element…
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