Dismantling America : and other controversial essays

Dismantling America And other controversial essays

Thomas Sowell, 1930-

Book - 2010

"These wide-ranging essays--on many individual political, economic, cultural and legal issues--have as a recurring underlying theme the decline of the values and institutions that have sustained and advanced American society for more than two centuries...Whether these essays (originally published as syndicated newspaper columns) are individually about financial bailouts, illegal immigrants, gay marriage, national security, or the Duke University rape case, the underlying concern is about what these very different kinds of things say about the general direction of American society..."--Dust jacket flap.

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Subjects
Political culture.
Social problems.
Conservatism.
Liberalism.
United States > Politics and government.
United States > Economic policy.
Published
New York : Basic Books c2010.
Language
English
Main Author
Thomas Sowell, 1930- (-)
Physical Description
ix, 341 p. ; 25 cm
ISBN
9780465022519
  • Preface
  • Government Policies
  • Dismantling America
  • Dismantling America: Part II
  • Playing Freedom Cheap
  • Pretty Talk and Ugly Realities
  • The Blame Game
  • Bowing to ôWorld Opinionö
  • Subsidizing Bad Decisions
  • Are You an ôExtremistö?
  • Varieties of Nothing
  • What Are They Buying?
  • Cheap Political Theater
  • The Limits of Power
  • Serious or Suicidal?
  • Are We France?
  • Notional Security
  • A Fatal Trajectory
  • Survival Optional
  • Words versus Realities
  • Morally Paralyzed
  • Point of No Return
  • Something for Nothing?
  • Political Issues
  • The Art of the Impossible
  • Solving Whose Problem?
  • It's Pricelless
  • Inept Republicans
  • The Brainy Bunch
  • Mascot Politics
  • Utopia versus Freedom
  • Magic Words in Politics
  • A War of Words
  • Republicans in the Wilderness
  • Burke and Obama
  • Oily Politics
  • Photographic Fraud
  • Political Corruption
  • Tragic Implications
  • A Home Invader Program?
  • An Ugly Reality
  • Fables for Adults
  • Economic Issues
  • Tax Cuts and ôTrickle Downö
  • Income Confusion
  • Upside Down Economics
  • An Economic Whodunit
  • False Solutions and Real Problems
  • Curing Poverty or Using Poverty?
  • The ôGreedö Fallacy
  • Payday Loans
  • Stimulus or Sedative?
  • French Student Riots
  • That ôTop One Percentö
  • Race and Economics
  • The ôCostsö of Medical Care
  • The ôCostsö of Medical Care: Part II
  • The ôCostsö of Medical Care: Part III
  • The ôCostsö of Medical Care: Part IV
  • Jobs or Snow Jobs?
  • A Glimmer of Hope
  • An Off-Budget Office?
  • Cultural Issues
  • Taking America for Granted
  • De-Programming Students
  • Attention-Getters
  • Mind-Changing Books
  • The Great Escape
  • The Fallacy of ôFairnessö
  • The Fallacy of ôFairnessö: Part II
  • The Fallacy of ôFairnessö: Part III
  • The Fallacy of ôFairnessö: Part IV
  • Adolescent Intellectuals
  • Ivan and Boris Again
  • An Investment in Failure
  • The Underdogs
  • Artificial Stupidity
  • Too Many Apologies
  • The Bullet Counters
  • Old Boxing Matches
  • The Right to Win
  • Freedom and the Left
  • The Gratingest Generation
  • The ôScienceö Mantra
  • ôIntellectualsö
  • Autism Cures?
  • All the ôNewsö?
  • Myths of '68
  • Say It Ain't So
  • Preserving a Vision
  • Legal Issues
  • ôEmpathyö versus Law
  • ôEmpathyö versus Law: Part II
  • The Legal Meatgrinder
  • Supreme Farce
  • The Left and Crime
  • The Left and Crime: Part II
  • High-Stakes Courts
  • The Duke Rape Case
  • The Duke Rape Case: Part II
  • The Duke Rape Case: Part III
  • The Duke Rape Case: Part IV
  • Good Riddance
  • A Tangled Web
  • Talking Points
  • Gay ôMarriageö
  • Tabloid TV ôJusticeö
  • Random Thoughts

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