Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
Thomas SowellIn short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politiciansโ fingerprints on the murder weapon.
Thomas SowellOne of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling processes involve a trade-off of costs and benefits. In general, the more finely the sorting is done, the greater the benefits - and the costs... Sorting and labeling, whether of people or of things, is a sorting and labeling of probabilities rather than of certainties.
Thomas SowellYou can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them, nor does the resulting quotient have any necessary relationship to anything in the real world.
Thomas Sowell