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Barbarians inside the gates : and other controversial essays / Thomas Sowell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sowell, Thomas, 1930- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Civilization--1970-.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--1993-2001.
- United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- A collection of essays that discusses such issues as the media, immigration, the minimum wage and multiculturalism.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: The Social Scene
- Barbarians Inside the Gates
- Lest We Forget
- Cosmic Justice and Human Reality
- From Marxism to the Market
- Hogwash is Happening
- Magic Numbers
- The Multiculturalism Cult
- Little Things
- Wrong to Know?
- Unnatural Resources
- Love is a Four-Letter Word
- The Mushing of America
- Revisionists Against America
- Public Service"-or Disservice?
- Late-Talking Children and Quick-Labelling Adults
- Fraud in Philly
- Part II: The Economic Scene
- Affordability
- The Social Security Pyramid
- Giving Business the Business
- The Price of Life
- Meaningless "Equality
- Micro-Managing Microsoft
- Famous Pairs
- How Rich is Rich?
- Blood Guzzlers
- Bringing Down the Deficit
- Unfunded Mandates
- No Money
- Age Warfare
- Misunderstanding the Marshall Plan
- Part III: The Political Scene
- Government versus Progress
- Freedom versus Democracy
- Will Chemical Weapons Be Banned?
- Supply-Side Politics
- Reflections on Term Limits
- The Century of the Intellectual
- Closet Humanitarians
- The Survival of The Left
- Gays in the Military
- The Chicken Little Media
- Mush, Cant and Immigration
- Phoney Arguments for Quotas
- Rip van Washington
- Coming from Behind
- More than Meets the Eye
- Logic Takes Its Revenge
- Modest Proposals
- Part IV: The Legal Scene
- Tampering with the Constitution
- Quotas Alive and Well
- Civil Liberties" Protection
- The Meaning of Law
- Power to the Parasites
- Criminals and Courts
- The War Against Clarence Thomas
- A Setback for Lynch Law
- Mascots of the Anointed
- The Death Penalty
- Part V: The Racial Scene
- Mistaken Identity
- Dog-in-the-Manger Politics
- The Slavery Card
- One Man's Education
- Assumptions Behind Affirmative Action.
- End it, Don't Mend It
- Grim Lessons of History
- Wrong Answers or Wrong Questions?
- Alien Nation and The Bell Curve
- Squeamish Words and Dying Babies
- Social Classes in the Black Community
- A New American Dilemma
- Singling Out Jews
- Giving Back
- Can Intelligence Be Discussed Intelligently?
- Part VI: The Education Scene
- Anti-"Elitism" in Education
- Higher Education and Low Comedy
- Tragi-Comic "Educators
- Damaging Admissions
- Glimpses of Academe
- Behind "Publish or Perish
- Ebonies and Money
- No College President
- Life is Culturally Biased
- Give Money and Shut Up!
- The "Religious Right
- Black History Lesson
- Too Much Money in Academe?
- Education Follies
- The School of Hard Knocks
- Education on Tape?
- Successful Schools and Failing Politics
- Part VII: Random Thoughts
- Random Thoughts.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780817995836
- 0817995838
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