Quatrième de couverture
In this latest collection of his always provocative essays, Thomas Sowell once again demonstrates why lie is one of the most thoughtful, readable, and controversial thinkers of our tune. With his usual unrelenting candor, Sowell cuts through the stereotypes, popular mythology, and "mush" surrounding the critical issues facing our nation today. Combining reason and common sense with actual historical and statistical evidence, lie challenges the assumptions of those cultural and political elites lie caps "the anointed" those who are "presuming or pretending to know answers that could be applied through government programs" and offers a hard-hitting perspective that is uniquely his own.
Whether he is writing about the media, multiculturalism, or Louis Farakhan, Sowell assails the fallacies of both the left and the right as he strives to reform not merely policies but our entire way of thinking. His ruthlessly honest insights on the American social, economic, political, legal, racial, and education scenes include his opinions on
• Cultural "Identity" • Prayer in Schools • Affirmative Action • Immigration • The Litigation Explosion • The Social Security Crisis • The Minimum Wage • The Media • Racial Quotas • Personal Responsibility Cultural Bias • Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill • Wade versus Roe • Gays in the Military • The Death Penalty • and many more of the most important issues facing America today.
In Barbarians inside the Gates, Sowell tackles each of these topics with a bold, original approach that demolishes widely held views and forces everyone, even those who disagree, to stop and think.
L'auteur vu par l'éditeur
A noted author and economist, Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. His books include Conquests and Cultures, Knowledge and Decisions, Ethnic America, Race and Culture, Vision of the Anointed, Migrations and Cultures, Late-Talking Children, and Is Reality Optional? He has also published in both academic journals and the popular media, including Time, Newsweek, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and 150 newspapers that carry his nationally syndicated column.
