Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays

318 Pages·1999·1.53 MB·English

by  Thomas Sowell

BARBARIANS INSIDE THE GATES
BARBARIANS
INSIDE
THE GATES
and Other Controversial Essays
Thomas Sowell

CONTENTS
Introduction ix
PART 1: THE SOCIAL SCENE
Barbarians Inside the Gates _;
Lest We Forget 5
Cosmic Justice and Human Reality 8
From Marxism to the Market 10
Hogwash is Happening 13
Magic Numbers 15
The Multiculturalism Cult 17
Little Things 20
Wrong to Know? 22
Unnatural Resources 25
Love is a Four-Letter Word 27
The Mushing of America 30
Revisionists Against America 35
"Public Service"-or Disservice'? 37
Late-Talking Children and Quick-Labelling Adults 40
Fraud in Philly 43
PART II: THE ECONOMIC SCENE
"Affordability" 49
The Social Security Pyramid 51
Giving Business the Business 54
The Price of Life 56
Meaningless "Equality" 59
Micro-Managing Microsoft 6i
Famous Pairs 64
How Rich is Rich? 66
Blood Guzzlers 69
Bringing Down the Deficit 72
Unfunded Mandates 74
No Money 77
Age Warfare 79
Misunderstanding the Marshall Plan 81
PART III: THE POLITICAL SCENE
Government versus Progress 87
Freedom versus Democracy 89
Will Chemical Weapons Be Banned? 91
Supply-Side Politics 94
Reflections on Term Limits 96
The Century of the Intellectual 98
Closet Humanitarians 101
The Survival of The Left 103
Gays in the Military io6
The Chicken Little Media 1o8
Mush, Cant and Immigration / i 1
Phoney Arguments for Quotas 113
Rip van Washington 116
Coming from Behind 118
More than Meets the Eye 121
Logic Takes Its Revenge 123
Modest Proposals 126
PART IV: THE LEGAL SCENE
Tampering with the Constitution 131
Quotas Alive and Well 133
"Civil Liberties" Protection 136
The Meaning of Law 138
Power to the Parasites 141
Criminals and Courts 143
The War Against Clarence Thomas 146
A Setback for Lynch Law 148
Mascots of the Anointed 151
The Death Penalty 153
PART V: THE RACIAL SCENE
Mistaken Identity 159
Dog-in-the-Manger Politics 161
The Slavery Card 163
One Man's Education 166
Assumptions Behind Affirmative Action 168
End it, Don't Mend It 171
Grim Lessons of History 173
Wrong Answers or Wrong Questions? 176
Alien Nation and The Bell Curve 179
Squeamish Words and Dying Babies 181
Social Classes in the Black Community 184
A New American Dilemma 187
Singling Out Jews 189
"Giving Back" 192
Can Intelligence Be Discussed Intelligently? 194
PART VI: THE EDUCATION SCENE