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Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Share on Facebook This is a great book. If you want to understand the core conflict behind most of today’s political and cultural battles Thomas Sowell lays it out very well. Share on Facebook Share on Facebook This month’s open threads will be some non-fiction selections… a smattering of books on my shelves…. Very few works really deserve the description “tour de force”… Jacques Barzun’s book From Dawn to Decadence is one that does: Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Share on Facebook The above lithograph, by Theodore Gericault in 1818 is called The Boxers. It depicts the December 1810 fight between English champion Tom Cribb versus freed American slave Tom Molineaux. How well known was it? Both boxers are in the Boxing Hall of Fame and it was well known enough to capture the imagination of [...] Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Share on Facebook A pretty consistent question I get from students over the years is why do liberals often appear to be either very rich or very poor. The very por are easy to explain… they are often direct beneficiaries of government largesse. But what do affluent people get from big government liberal policies like the environmental [...] |
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