I do.
Not is he just an intellectual, he is an American intellectual.
By that he writes as an American, not a Black American. He writes to everybody, not just the wealthier people or the poorer people. He want everyone, and I do mean everyone, to have the best life possible.
However, he also believes in something else for everyone. Hard work and responsibility.
He did not get where he is today by affirmative action. He got there on his own merit and hard work.
Is Thomas Sowell an example of a true intellectual?
Gracie - Proud Conservative
2012/04/23 03:20:34
Every time I read Thomas Sowell I'm blown away at his intelligence, his wisdom and his ability to analyze economic, political and social issues. If only we had our universities filled with Professors like him. I'm reading a compilation of his works, much of which I've already read but it's always fantastic! Do you find him as amazing as I do?
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Red Branch 2012/04/23 03:32:23
He nails the Statists everytime with their vapid "logic."
“Here again, verbal virtuosity transforms an opposing argument, rather than answering it with either logic or evidence.”
ref: Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society, (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2009), p. 52.
“Admittedly, the Democrats have an easier case to make. It takes no great amount of thought, nor much in the way of persuasive powers, to sell the idea of government handing out benefits hither and yon. It is only when you stop and think about the consequences, for this generation and generations to come, that some grim questions arise.”
ref: Thomas Sowell, Dismantling America, (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2010), p. 83.
“There are wild cards in such data that need to be kept in mind when you hear income statistics thrown around—especially when they are thrown around by people who are trying to prove something for political purposes.
One of these wild cards is that most Americans do not stay in the same income brackets throughout their lives. Millions of people move from one bracket to another in just a few years.
What that means statistically is that comparing the top income bracket with the bottom income bracket over a period of years tells you nothing about what is happening to the actual flesh-...
He nails the Statists everytime with their vapid "logic."
“Here again, verbal virtuosity transforms an opposing argument, rather than answering it with either logic or evidence.”
ref: Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society, (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2009), p. 52.
“Admittedly, the Democrats have an easier case to make. It takes no great amount of thought, nor much in the way of persuasive powers, to sell the idea of government handing out benefits hither and yon. It is only when you stop and think about the consequences, for this generation and generations to come, that some grim questions arise.”
ref: Thomas Sowell, Dismantling America, (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2010), p. 83.
“There are wild cards in such data that need to be kept in mind when you hear income statistics thrown around—especially when they are thrown around by people who are trying to prove something for political purposes.
One of these wild cards is that most Americans do not stay in the same income brackets throughout their lives. Millions of people move from one bracket to another in just a few years.
What that means statistically is that comparing the top income bracket with the bottom income bracket over a period of years tells you nothing about what is happening to the actual flesh-and-blood human beings who are moving between brackets during those years.
That is why the IRS data, which are for people 25 years old and older, and which follow the same individuals over time, find those in the bottom 20 percent of income-tax filers almost doubling their income in a decade. That is why they are no longer in the same bracket.” (Ibid, p. 136-7)
I'm enjoying The Reader because he has a lot of his columns from over the years and they're always brilliant. Too bad a true intellect isn't running the show!
Not is he just an intellectual, he is an American intellectual.
By that he writes as an American, not a Black American. He writes to everybody, not just the wealthier people or the poorer people. He want everyone, and I do mean everyone, to have the best life possible.
However, he also believes in something else for everyone. Hard work and responsibility.
He did not get where he is today by affirmative action. He got there on his own merit and hard work.
I would say that he favors it as well.