There are great writers and there are great thinkers. Sometimes they are one and the same person (e.g., Ayn Rand, FA Hayek, Thomas Paine). More often they are not.
Some of my favorites:
Fredric Bastiat
Henry Hazlitt
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Sowell
Bryan Caplan
Walter Block
John McWhorter
Richard Dawkins
Carlo Rovelli
Jerry Coyne
Wilfred Reilly
Jason Riley
Will Durant
Philip O’Reilly
HL Mencken
What makes one a great writer, writing about someone else’s work, is their ability to breathe new life into an old idea and make it fresh and exciting—like it was just discovered yesterday.
For some readers it will actually be like a new discovery—Individual liberty and self-reliance (why didn’t I think of it!). That’s what happened to me when I came upon Thomas Sowell’s books.
Greater writers steal and improve upon the idea. -- Me
Thanks for quoting Thomas Sowell in previous writings. I purchased The Thomas Sowell Reader the other day and as I've been reading it, I've thought, "Where has he been all my life?!"
I was delighted that he mentions Theodore Dalrymple's Race to the Bottom. If you haven't read it, you will now!
The rich hate the very rich for the same reason the average man hates the above average man—envy.
Phil,
There are great writers and there are great thinkers. Sometimes they are one and the same person (e.g., Ayn Rand, FA Hayek, Thomas Paine). More often they are not.
Some of my favorites:
Fredric Bastiat
Henry Hazlitt
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Sowell
Bryan Caplan
Walter Block
John McWhorter
Richard Dawkins
Carlo Rovelli
Jerry Coyne
Wilfred Reilly
Jason Riley
Will Durant
Philip O’Reilly
HL Mencken
What makes one a great writer, writing about someone else’s work, is their ability to breathe new life into an old idea and make it fresh and exciting—like it was just discovered yesterday.
For some readers it will actually be like a new discovery—Individual liberty and self-reliance (why didn’t I think of it!). That’s what happened to me when I came upon Thomas Sowell’s books.
I was going through counting how many I'd read (7 or 8) and saw my name.
Thanks!
And I am being sincere.
If you think their wedding is extravagant wait till you see their divorce settlement.
What's the over/under? Five years?
Greater writers steal and improve upon the idea. -- Me
Thanks for quoting Thomas Sowell in previous writings. I purchased The Thomas Sowell Reader the other day and as I've been reading it, I've thought, "Where has he been all my life?!"
I was delighted that he mentions Theodore Dalrymple's Race to the Bottom. If you haven't read it, you will now!
I think I've had one of his books on my Amazon watch list for years. My list is way too long and I procrastinate too much.