EVER WONDER WHY? AND OTHER CONTROVERSIAL ESSAYS

Book ID/图书代码： 08B23973

English Summary/英文概要： "The desire of individuals and groups to puff themselves up by imposing their vision on other people is a recurring theme in the culture wars"

Thomas Sowell takes on a range of legal, social, racial, educational, and economic issues—along with "the culture wars"—in this latest collection of his controversial, never boring, always thought-provoking essays. From "gun control myths" to "mealy mouth media" to "free lunch medicine," Sowell gets to the heart of the matters we all care about with his characteristically unswerving candor.

Sowell skewers the "mealy mouth media" that calls terrorists "insurgents" and rioters "demonstrators." He reveals how "the idiocy of relevance" in learning has been particularly destructive in the education of minority students at all levels. He explains how a free market and a strict construction of the 14th Amendment would never have permitted the laws that asked Rosa Parks to give up her seat to a white man. And he clarifies the confusion between equal opportunity and equal results that resides behind many kinds of "spoiled brat politics."

With Ever Wonder Why?—drawn from the best of his popular syndicated newspaper columns—Sowell once again takes dead aim at the self-righteous and self-important forces in government, media, education, and other areas of our society, offering the thoughtful perceptions, commonsense insights, and straightforward honesty we have come to expect from one of conservatism’s most articulate voices.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： “在当今的文化战争中，个人和集体期望通过将自己的观点强加于人来突显自己的欲望是一个复兴的主题。”托马斯·索维尔在他最新的论文集中论述了一系列法律，社会，种族，教育和经济问题以及“文化战争”。他的论文向来颇具争议，但又不失趣味和启发。从“枪支控制神话”到“遮遮掩掩的媒体”再到“免费医疗服务”，索维尔一针见血地剖析了我们所关心的话题，显示出他一贯独具特色的坦率和真诚。
索维尔严厉抨击了遮遮掩掩的媒体，它们称恐怖分子为“叛乱分子”，称暴徒为“示威者”。他揭示了教育中灌输的“愚蠢的相关论”如何给各个阶段的少数民族学生造成破坏性的影响，解释了自由市场和严格的宪法第14条修正案为什么永远也不会通过带有种族歧视的法律（诸如要求罗斯·帕克斯给白人让座的法律。）他还澄清了“腐败而又不成熟的政治”背后机会均等与收益均等的不和谐。
《你曾经思考过为什么吗？》是索维尔从他报纸专栏评论中精选的论文，他又一次将矛头指向了政府，媒体，教育界和社会其他领域中妄自尊大又自我感觉公平正义的势力，给人以深刻的思想认识和常识性的洞察力，让人深深感受到他的坦诚和直率，而这正是我们期望从保守主义者那听到的声音。(zyt)

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About the Author/作者介绍： Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Among his published works are Basic Economics, Late Talking Children, and Race and Culture. He has also published in both academic journals and the popular media including Newsweek, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and 150 newspapers that carry his nationally syndicated column.
托马斯·索维尔是斯坦福大学胡佛学院罗斯和米尔顿·费里德曼公共政策资深研究员。他出版的著作包括《基础经济学》，《话语滞后儿童》和《竞争与文化》。他也在学术期刊和流行媒体如《新闻周刊》，《福布斯》，《华尔街日报》发表文章，有150家报纸都刊登了他闻名全国的专栏评论。

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