Posted on 08/13/2010 5:38:33 PM PDT by Kaslin
Commentary: Doomsters are a dime a dozen. But when a leading economist who's been called "the nation's greatest contemporary philosopher" sees serious trouble ahead, we'd better listen up.
Thomas Sowell's 45th book, "Dismantling America," is a collection of 100 of the Hoover Institution scholar's best newspaper columns. For book purposes, they're called essays — but they retain the brevity, clarity and simple profundity of the columns that have graced our "On The Right" column for years.
Like Sowell's other books, they range over many political, economic, cultural and legal topics.
As a whole, they amount to a stern denunciation of America's direction. Sowell sees the national equivalent of a "perfect storm," a gathering of "dangerous forces (that) have been building .. . for at least a half-century."
Yes, he says, our great nation has weathered many storms. But, he quickly notes, so did the Roman Empire before it collapsed. "Is that where America is headed?" Sowell asks upfront. "I believe it is. Our only saving grace is that we are not there yet — and that nothing is inevitable until it happens."
Given the desperate times our ancestors lived through, we have no reason, Sowell says, "to whine today because the stocks in our pension plans have gone down or the inflated value that our houses had just a few years ago has now evaporated."
In another sense, he adds in a piece titled "A Fatal Trajectory," "looming ahead of us — and our children and their children — are dangers that can utterly destroy America. Worse yet, there are moral corrosions within ourselves that weaken our ability to face the challenges ahead."
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And when it does can we finally hold those responsible?
I hope so
There is very little left to dismantle.
Thomas Sowell is masterful.
If the Republican party had any brains, they’d commission this guy to do a tour of urban areas, teaching the BASICS of economics to all who will listen.
I know he is getting up there in years, but his passion and wisdom ought to be enough to win over at least some of the blacks who are open to the truth.
I am serious. Sowell could testify first hand about the generation of Martin Luther King, Jr. and how the race-baiters of today are not representative of true civil rights pioneers.
And he’d give a great lecture on how capitalism is the best path to prosperity.
Thomas, I will not surrender. I would rather die than live as a slave to anyone.
Indeed, something evil this way comes...
Millions of Americans may die.
I am in total awe of Sowell. Study the Bible first, the U.S. Constitution second, and after that, Thomas Sowell...
Wow, just recently I was telling someone that we need to start an education outreach system to the urban areas. The Dems will never attempt to teach their voters about economics or American government basics. It's left to us conservatives if we hope to save our country.
That alone disqualified anything that follows.
He cranks them out faster than Steven King, and considering that he writes so much about leftist idiocy they are far, far scarier.
And thank YOU for the ping, Jazusamo!
You are welcome. I pinged you, because I thought you might be interested in this editorial
Well, Dr Sowell is awesome
If Dr. Sowell is this worried... we should all be afraid. Very afraid.
It’s a very good piece. Some of the points he made in it he’s made before but as time passes it’s more and more appropriate.
Isn’t this what the author of the editorial said in the first paragraph?
“And when it does can we finally hold those responsible?”
Republicans will be in charge when the economy tanks and the Dems will blame them all the way!
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