Thomas Sowell has taught economics at Cornell, UCLA, Amherst, and other academic institutions, and his Basic Economics has been translated into six languages. He is currently a scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has published in both academic journals and in such popular media as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes magazine, and Fortune, and he writes a syndicated column that appears in newspapers across the country.
"Intellectuals and Society is something of a summa of Sowell's
concerns over the last 40 years... The power of Sowell's book owes
to its concreteness. He has an enviable gift for showing that many
of our social problems arise from the differences between 'the
theories of intellectuals and the realities of the world.'... this
learned and thoughtful book demonstrates what its author has in
mind when he calls for a humane reintegration of intellect, wisdom,
and respect for the stubborn realities that constitute our
world."--City Journal
"Intellectuals and Society unravels in clear, non-intellectual
terms some of the puzzling phenomena in the world of the
intellectuals--analyzing the nature and role of intellectuals in
society and exploring the ominous implications of that role for the
direction in which the Leftist intelligentsia are taking our
society and Western civilization in general."--Conservative Book
Club
"America's best writer on economics, particularly when that
discipline intersects with politics."--World
"Certainly passionate about the subject, Sowell is perceptive and
at times brilliant....another well-written work....[A]n
entertaining read."--Choice
"It (Intellectuals and Society) is chock full of interesting ideas
- like much of Sowell's work."--Regulation, CATO Institute
"It's a scandal that economist Thomas Sowell has not been awarded
the Nobel Prize. No one alive has turned out so many insightful,
richly researched books."--Steve Forbes
"Mr. Sowell builds a devastating case against the leftist antiwar
political and intellectual establishment"
--Washington Times
"One comes away from reading Sowell with a sense of having
encountered the kind of analytic incisiveness and depth that was
practiced by the best thinkers of the Enlightenment, men like Adam
Smith, or the triune authors of the Federalist Papers, who both
read the human heart and knew the human story...Sowell is a
fiercely polemical writer, yet one whose clear, straightforward
prose illumines everything it touches. He's as honest and valuable
an intellectual as America will ever produce. If the force of an
example is needed to improve the breed, he's it."--Academic
Questions (Springer)
"Sowell is at his best, which is very good indeed, when he deals
with the free market. He points out a fallacy in the complaints of
many critics of the market who stress the unequal distribution of
wealth and income in contemporary America...Sowell's skillful use
of evidence emerges again when he confronts another popular charge
against the free market...an excellent book as a whole."--The
Independent Review
"Sowell looks at war with a steady gaze, never supposing that
peaceful economic competition will entirely replace it. He makes
good sport of deflating the unthinking rhetorical antics of many
pacifist intellectuals...He [Sowell] very well knows the most
important thing about his life's work: in the end he is an
economist who points beyond the often-dismal science to an economy
of the spirit."--Society (Springer)
"Sowell takes aim at the class of people who influence our public
debate, institutions, and policy. Few of Sowell's targets are left
standing at the end, and those who are stagger back to their
corner, bloody and bruised."--National Review Online
"The illustrations of his [Sowell's] argument are quite
compelling...the chapter on intellectuals and the economy is,
naturally, among the most illuminating..."
--The American Spectator
"Thomas Sowell is, in my opinion, the most interesting philosopher
at work in America."--Paul Johnson, author of Modern Times
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