Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays [Paperback]

Thomas Sowell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1989

A columnist for the Scripps-Howard News Service has compiled several of his short essays written for the common reader into a collection, covering such topics as affirmative action, media hype, and homosexual politics. 5 cassettes.

--This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In many of these essays, largely reprinted from his newspaper columns, sociologist-economist Sowell, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute, Stanford University, and author of A Conflict of Visions, deals with attempts to change the political direction of the '80s in the most fundamental way since the New Deal. His opinions on social and foreign policy, law, education and race, among other topics, reflect a generally conservative, realistic approach to problems that, he notes, result more often in political tradeoffs than so-called solutions advocated by "deep thinkers." His most acerbic comments concern special-interest groups such as homosexual lobbies, bigoted crusaders of all kinds, the welfare system, pay equity and sex education. He supports Reagan's strong anti-Communism, defense and South African policies, along with the president's selection of judges and opposition to judicial activism. Sowell also favors legalization of drugs and equal opportunity over affirmative action.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

This anthology of recent pieces by Sowell, a brilliant economist currently at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, is drawn from his Scripps-Howard syndicated column and his contributions to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Washington Post. While Sowell, who is black, is known as an expert in the economics and politics of race, he is also a thinker of wide-ranging interestsas attested by these provocative writings organized under headings such as "Education," "The Law," and "Foreign Policy." What ties the essays together is his ability to look at the cost and benefits of various concepts, proposals, and actions (comparable worth, judicial activism, etc.) and analyze the trade-offs with common sense. For all social policy collections. Gene R. Laczniak, Coll. of Business Administration, Marquette Univ.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: William Morrow & Co (February 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0688086705
• ISBN-13: 978-0688086701
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,242,080 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Thomas Sowell has taught economics at Cornell, UCLA, Amherst and other academic institutions, and his Basic Economics has been translated into six languages. He is currently a scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has published in both academic journals in such popular media as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes magazine and Fortune, and writes a syndicated column that appears in newspapers across the country.