Ever wonder why? and other controversial essays (edition 2006)

by Thomas Sowell

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Thomas Sowell takes aim at a range of legal, social, racial, educational, and economic issues 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 unsparing candor.… (more)

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Title:	Ever wonder why? and other controversial essays
Authors:	Thomas Sowell
Info:	Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, c2006.
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A collection of three page articles from one of the greatest economists and leading minds of our day. Thomas Sowell's other work offer penetrating insights into a variety of issues, and approaches them with a clear focus on evidence as can be ascertained and evaluated. This text offers a lighter tone, but is no less insightful and clever. (

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Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm--but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves. ~T.S. Eliot

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When you have seen scenes of poverty and squalor in many Third World countries, either in person or in pictures, have you ever wondered why we in America have been spared such a fate?

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Thomas Sowell takes aim at a range of legal, social, racial, educational, and economic issues 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 unsparing candor.

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