I agree with the ED part of the article but I don't like the thinly veiled attacks on the rich or the "greedy" corporations.
If people consider rich people and organizations that make big money evil, is it any wonder so few people are rich? Who wants to be evil?
Sowell is just plain old attacking socialism. He doesn't like government interference in the economy, no matter who's doing the lobbying. Believe me, this dude ain't no lib.
"Who wants to be evil?"
Well, if being wealthy and successful is evil, then slap me senseless and call me the devil!
No rational person disagrees with honest gain resulting from the production of wealth, however, using sheer financial clout to invest illegitimate powers in government in order to game the system is all too prevalent.
I don't think Dr. Sowell is trying to demonize the rich as a whole, just those who would abuse government power to serve their own interests. That IS evil.
Read it again. I think you will find it hard to point to any sort of "veil," thin or otherwise -- Sowell is one of the straightest talkers around. He attacks not "the rich" in general, but rich people who use socialist rhetoric to turn government force to their own private ends. Such people have fairly earned his scorn. And I really don't understand where you get "greedy" corporations out of the article. The only mentions of businesses are sympathetic.
Making money is not evil, it's Capitalism and most of us subscribe to that...
Making money and then pronouncing yourself to be in favor of every ecology/liberal/moonbat gimmick available to protect your newly purchased position is hypocrisy.
Shutting the homeless out of Bel Air while denouncing any other town that tries to keep their parks clean is Limousine Liberalism at its worst - and all too popular among both the new and the old rich.
(If you want it, and you can afford it; buy it - don't ask me to spend tax dollars to provide it to you)
You obviously are in for a treat. You actually have not read enough Thomas Sowell to know when you are reading wisdom. Run, do not walk, to your library and find one of his books. Or search for his name in google and find his columns on the Internet.Professor Sowell has no interest in "veiled" attacks or insinuations; he is no sophist (wise guy) but a sincere philosopher (that means, "lover of wisdom"). Sowell would never argue that something is true because he says so. But if he says something, you can figure that you can take it to the bank.
You must have misinterpreted it. Those attacks you referred to are something you will NEVER hear from Thomas Sowell. The man is a conservative and a capitalist through and through.
When he uses language such as "rich neighborhoods" and phrases like it, he is using it in the manner of a liberal to show how stupid it is.
At least, after reading three of his books, that is the way that I see his writing.