
Thomas Sowell is my favorite author. It was my great fortune to have stumbled upon his books in the mid 90’s. Dr Sowell has the ability to make complex concepts understandable to regular people like you and me. He digs into statistics from various studies and figures out what they reveal and what they do not reveal. He is an economist by trade. This background allows him to see discernible patterns that are hidden to most of us.
His writings have equipped me with a series of questions that I ask myself when confronted with any issue or anyone speaking about an issue. Here are the questions.
– Compared to what?
– At what cost?
-Is what is being compared, comparable?
– And then what?
– Numbers? In what context?
– Can someone be ethical while being political and can someone be unbiased while being an advocate?
– What is…
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