Is Reality Optional? And Other Essays
by Thomas Sowell
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Sowell challenges all the assumptions of contemporary liberalism on issues ranging from the economy to race to education in this collection of controversial essays, and captures his thoughts on politics, race, and common sense with a section at the end for thought-provoking quotes.Tags
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Newspaper and magazine articles on various political and social issues.
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Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
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- Canonical title
- Is Reality Optional? And Other Essays
- Original publication date
- 1993
- First words
- (Introduction): While essays for newspapers and magazines tend to deal with one problem at a time, when they are brought together in a book, certain recurrent themes may become apparent.
When ninteenth-century writer and lecturer Margaret Fuller proclaimed "I accept the universe!" Carlyle's response was: "By God, she had better." - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)To me, the fact that I have never murdered an editor is proof the death penalty deters.
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- Nonfiction, Economics, General Nonfiction, Sociology, Politics and Government, Philosophy
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- 301 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Sociology and anthropology
- LCC
- HM73 .S686 — Social sciences Sociology (General) Sociology These are obsolete numbers no longer used
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