Is Reality Optional?
And Other Essays

This is a collection of Thomas Sowell’s essays from the 1980s and early 90s. The book was published in 1993. So, reading it in 2022, nearly 30 years later, one might think that it is outdated. The fact is, many of the things he writes about are still with us: political correctness, affirmative-actio......more

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This collection of essays feels like a Time Capsule of 80’s TV conservatism. Read the “Random Thoughts” chapter at the end— you’ll get the gist of the best of it. Sowell is quite bad at writing on subjects that haven’t affected him personally. He complains but doesn’t give any reasons to substantiat......more

A welcome counterpoint This collection of short essays, in many instances, cuts through BS succinctly, and while most of my contemporaries will not find it palatable, for that reason, it deserves our attention. All Sowell expects of his readers is that they have some factual basis for their thoughts......more