[ansel12]

I choose books well and read almost entirely non-fiction so everything I read makes me feel like I learned something and since I choose carefully even the few fiction books, Russian, C. S. Lewis, inform me.

I challenge anyone to read a Thomas Sowell book about anything, and not feel smarter afterward.

[rlmorel]

Exactly what I was going to post.

His "Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy" did that for me, and I ended up reading all these:

• The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy

• Black Rednecks and White Liberals

• Inside American Education

• A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

• Economic Facts and Fallacies

• Race And Culture: A World View

• Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One

• Intellectuals and Society

• Discrimination and Disparities

• Migrations and Cultures: A World View

• A Personal Odyssey

• Conquests and Cultures: An International History

• Dismantling America: And Other Controversial Essays

• Marxism: Philosophy and Economics

His writing on various subjects is more approachable to a wider range of people than nearly any other author I know.