Searching for meaning and purpose in his life, Kalanithi pursued a doctorate in literature and had felt certain that he wouldn’t enter the field of medicine, in which his father and other members of his family excelled. Writing isn’t brain surgery, but it’s rare when someone adept at the latter is also so accomplished at the former. What I cannot understand is why they get in the fast lane to do it.” The answer to the second question, following Sowell, might go thus: because they’re liberals and the state tells them to do it, just to get in the way of hard-working real Americans.Ī solid, representative collection by a writer and thinker whom one either agrees with or not-and there’s not much middle ground on which to stand.Ī neurosurgeon with a passion for literature tragically finds his perfect subject after his diagnosis of terminal lung cancer. Sometimes, though, Sowell’s sentiments emerge as pabulum, as when he writes, in would-be apothegms: “Government bailouts are like potato chips: You can’t stop with just one” “I can understand why some people like to drive slowly. Washington, who was adept in using white people’s money to advance his causes while harboring no illusions that his benefactors were saints. (If it is true that most gun violence is committed in households where domestic abuse has taken place, then why not take away the abusers’ guns as part of the legal sentencing?) Often his arguments are very smart, as when he examines the career of Booker T. Sowell is generally fair-minded, reasonable and logical, but his readers will likely already be converts to his cause, for which reason he does not need to examine all the angles of a problem. Colleges teach impressionable Americans to “despise American society.” Minimum-wage laws are a drag on the economy. Ethnic studies and the “mania for ‘diversity’ ” produce delusions. It’s up to parents, not society or the schools, to be sure that children are educated. Here he picks from his numerous writings, which have the consistency of an ideologue-e.g., affirmative action is bad, period. Though he resists easy categorization, the author has been associated with hard-libertarian organizations and think tanks such as the Hoover Institution for most of his long working life. “Ideology is fairy tales for adults.” Thus writes economist and conservative maven Sowell in a best-of volume shot through with…ideology.
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