Social Justice Fallacies

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Brad Sanders

Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins

Publisher's summary

The quest for social justice is a powerful crusade of our time, with an appeal to many different people, for many different reasons. But those who use the same words do not always present the same meanings. Clarifying those meanings is the first step toward finding out what we agree on and disagree on. From there, it is largely a question of what the facts are. Social Justice Fallacies reveals how many things that are thought to be true simply cannot stand up to documented facts, which are often the opposite of what is widely believed.

However attractive the social justice vision, the crucial question is whether the social justice agenda will get us to the fulfillment of that vision. History shows that the social justice agenda has often led in the opposite direction, sometimes with catastrophic consequences.

More things are involved besides simply mistakes. All human beings are fallible, and social justice advocates may not necessarily make any more mistakes than others. But crusaders with an utter certainty about their mission are often undeterred by obstacles, evidence or even fatal dangers. That is where much of the Western world is today. The question is whether we will continue on heedlessly, past the point of no return.

©2023 Thomas Sowell (P)2023 Basic Books

Another awesome book by the great Thomas Sowell

This is a great book that will give valuable insights to the world around us and how it got this way.

Another Thomas Sowell masterpiece

Pro’s-Throughly logical arguments, presented in an easy to understand manner. The author’s critique regarding social justice should be answered by progressives, not just dismissed out of hand. If progressives were honest they would have to admit Thomas Sowell make some profoundly interesting points.
Con’s-Some of this material has been covered by a few of his other books. The reader was rather bland and somewhat monotonous.

Greatest Thinker of our Time does it again!!

Is there a More Important Individual in Helping us all just understand How to think about ANY topic? May this man live until 200!

A great distillation if Sowell’s ideas

This timely book is filled with the same clear analysis and writing that are hallmarks for Thomas Sowell. Read Sowell at your own risk—he is likely to change your way of thinking (in the best way).

Ask the three questions...

The Professor gives another well-researched and explained masterpiece. Sowell often says to ask three questions when folks want to attack the system and replace it with their vision - compared to what? at what cost? and where's your evidence? This book gives ample knowledge to guard against Pollyanna wishes.

My only gripe is the narrator uses a weird rhythm that, at times, attempts to copy Sowell's punchy style, but it often breaks clauses and sentences into a strange staccato.

For anyone who has followed Thomas Sowell for any length of time and read a few of his works, this book feels like a summary of them all. If his goal is to leave us with a concise collection of his career's findings, mission accomplished.

Great book!

Sowell combines a wealth of historical facts with careful and succinct analysis to support his conclusion that our society’s social justice warriors are misguided.

Clearly written

Mr. Sowell is a master at presenting his ideas in a way we non-academics can easily understand. Thank you again Mr. Sowell for another terrific book.

Gold Standard for understanding the “Social Justice” movement.

Sowell is all the intelligence anyone on the left could ever dream to be but has one additional quality worth more than all the intelligence in the world combined….. Integrity.

Great info

Great research. Goes against much of the what we are led to believe by many out there.

Still Good

I wanted a more direct response to the events of the last few years. Instead, Sowell delivered the history and data that’s lead to the current trends and disasters of Social Justice. Sowell isn’t spicy, just calm and honest.
If you’ve read many of Sowell’s previous books, there’s nothing really new here, other than a rather strong call to action at the end (strong by Sowell’s standards), and honestly, the CTA elevated the book for me to 5 stars. Don’t embrace totalitarianism or anarchy. We need law and order based on reality, and an end to the so-called government safety nets and race-based preferential policies that are holding down minorities and poors from all walks of life.
If this Sowell’s last book, I’m okay with that.
Oh, and the narrator is top notch.