Thomas Sowell. (2001). The Quest for Cosmic Justice. Free Press.

Thomas Sowell. 2001. The Quest for Cosmic Justice. Free Press.

Thomas Sowell, The Quest for Cosmic Justice. Free Press, 2001.

Thomas Sowell. The Quest for Cosmic Justice. Free Press, 2001.

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This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times. It is not a comforting book but a book about disturbing and dangerous trends. The Quest for Cosmic Justice shows how confused conceptions of justice end up promoting injustice, how confused conceptions of equality end up promoting inequality, and how the tyranny of social visions prevents many people from confronting the actual consequences of their own beliefs and policies. Those consequences include the steady and dangerous erosion of fundamental principles of freedom — amounting to a quiet repeal of the American revolution.
The Quest for Cosmic Justice is the summation of a lifetime of study and thought about where we as a society are headed — and why we need to change course before we do irretrievable damage.

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   • source: Judge Robert H. BorkIn The Quest for Cosmic Justice
   • content: Thomas Sowell once again displays his distinctive combination of erudition, analytical power, and uncommon sense. He exposes in all its fraudulence the sense of injustice that rebels against inevitable features of human life, producing congeries of utopian reforms that drastically, and futilely, diminish America's liberties.
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   • source: George Gilderauthor of Wealth and Poverty
   • content: Thomas Sowell is the most original and important conservative thinker of the late twentieth century, illuming this epoch of conservative triumph over the socialism and racism of the left. The Quest for Cosmic Justice is yet another high point on his heroic journey.
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   • source: Lino A. Gragliaauthor of Disaster by Decree: The Supreme Court Decisions on Race and the Schools
   • content: Sowell is our leading practitioner of social commentary based on clear-eyed, hardheaded common sense. He provides insights -- e.g., intellectuals ("the anointed") opt for policies (e.g., disarmament over readiness) that demonstrate their moral superiority -- and destroys myths -- e.g., mortgage lenders discriminate against blacks -- on every issue he touches. Like his previous work, The Quest for Cosmic Justice is an antidote for the temptation to moralistic irrationality in public policymaking. In addition he is a wonderful phrasemaker and a delight to read.
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   • source: David Boazauthor of Libertarianism: A Primer
   • content: and editor of The Libertarian ReaderNo one should pronounce on justice or equality again without grappling with Thomas Sowell's powerful argument. In this book, reflecting a lifetime of wide-ranging research and careful reflection, Sowell makes us understand the differences between results and processes, between "cosmic justice" and traditional justice, between the rule of law and the power to do good. The ratio of insights to words in this book is remarkably high.
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     October 4, 1999
     One of the country's most respected conservative intellectuals, Sowell (Race and Culture, etc.) proclaims a need to clarify the notion of justice. He then hurriedly decrees an absolute dichotomy between "traditional justice"--purely procedural equal treatment--and "cosmic justice." Unfortunately, Sowell, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, never satisfactorily defines what he means by cosmic justice, using it as an elastic term. Sowell easily tears apart handpicked examples of ill-conceived cosmic justice while steering clear of serious engagement with opposing positions. Thus he attacks Supreme Court rulings such as Miranda as "attempts to seek cosmic justice in the courtroom," but it requires a much better argument than Sowell provides to see how Miranda is anything but procedural. He equates redistributive state policies with "Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot," as if Western European welfare states simply didn't exist. Sowell makes some very good points in these four essays (touching on the difficulty of defining equal performance, the necessity of considering costs in pursuing abstract ideals and the corrosive political effects of envy), but he overplays his hand. The essay called "The Tyranny of Visions" asserts that conservatives "acquire no sense of moral superiority" from their positions, a point that anyone familiar with Pat Buchanan or with Sowell himself will find hard to swallow. Certainly, a good case can be made that people use the term "justice" loosely and that many conflate procedural justice with metaphysical justice. Beyond that, however, Sowell offers a catechism for true conservative believers.

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Contents

Preface

I The Quest for Cosmic Justice

II The Mirage of Equality

III The Tyranny of Visions

IV The Quiet Repeal of the American Revolution

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