Thomas Sowell delar i vanlig ordning ut en liten dos av visdom på www.CapMag.com. Till mina favoriter hör följande:

In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.

The political left loves to depict its ideas as ”new” — a practice which is itself centuries old on the left, as are the ideas themselves.

[För övrigt har jag noterat att svenska vänsterungdomar brukar gå runt och tro att deras idéer är radikala och att de står emot etablissemanget, medan i det själva verket är så att de själva utgör en del av samma vänsteretablissemang.]

How can people who say we don’t have enough troops in Iraq advocate that we intervene militarily in Darfur?

Many of the same people who claim that mental tests are not valid for college admissions decisions, or for employment decisions, nevertheless consider these tests valid for deciding that a murderer cannot be executed when he scores low on such tests — even though he has no incentive to score high.