Thomas Sowell is an American treasure. The way he uses words to articulate his ideas is amazing. His books should be read and heeded by all Americans.

Fantastic as ever

It is always informative and enjoyable to read a book by Sowell. This one was no different but is often essays he’s already published so doesn’t flow as well as his other books. Check it out.

This collection of essays from the highly educated and brilliant black economist Thomas Sowell really opened my eyes to a LOT of things. I highly recommend. These essays are a little older, but sadly the problems he writes about haven’t gotten any better. If you want a perspective with data to back it up rather than just rhetoric, this book is for you. Wish I would have read it a lot earlier.

Quite an interesting read. Thomas Sowell basically broke open the secrets that are kept hidden in plain sight in this book.

The writing is a bit disjointed and repetitive at times (and could have been shortened by a 50-100 pages), but I do think this is an interesting book to read. Even if not for the interesting nuggets of knowledge that was imparted, but for our own understanding and perspective of the world we live in to be challenged.

Any book where I learn something new is a good book in my opinion. This book is one of them.

Blog: http://literaturesandmovies.com

Labai silpna mano vieno mėgstamiausių JAV intelektualų knygų. Pass.

Not for the enlightened. Policies should be judged by facts not feelings.

extremely sharp and informative. especially for those who wants to overlook their ingrained posture.

ძალიან მაგარია!!!

absolutely nuts how these were written in the 90s, lol

Barbarians is, on the whole, no less thought-provoking than Compassion versus Guilt, though its essays are noticeably more overlapped. Its primary weakness, however, is that Sowell invests too much energy into making clear his detest of "counterculture liberals". In doing so he strays from the sort of clean, no-nonsense argument that made Compassion versus Guilt so compelling, and instead risks alienating readers using the exact style of divisive rhetoric found in his most hated opponents.

Too many good quotes to include here. Maybe someday I'll add them to this review.

Just read it.

learning from history verses the pinball emotional reactions of herds of people swayed by biased relativism, which would you pick, there is objective truth in all things, making decisions based upon the evidence of history and objective truths can be and usually is the loving approach we could have for each other in all things.