Thomas Sowell: The “Achievements” of the American Intelligentsia

There is a new Conservative website: RIGHTNETWORK that I predict will become a major new force in American political life. One of the first articles is this one by Thomas Sowell, one of most brilliant political thinkers of this - or the last century. He is not kind to the "intellectual" as a class.

The intelligentsia have largely ignored or downplayed the things in which Americans lead the world, including philanthropy, technology, and the creation of life-saving medicines--and treated the errors, flaws, and shortcomings that Americans share with human beings around the world as special defects of our society.

Read the whole thing.