Jonah Goldberg of National Review says Thomas Sowell's new book, Intellectuals and Society is a "great, great piece of work." The Amazon.com product description says:
One of the most surprising aspects of this study is how often intellectuals have been proved not only wrong, but grossly and disastrously wrong in their prescriptions for the ills of society—and how little their views have changed in response to empirical evidence of the disasters entailed by those views.
An excellent video interview with Thomas Sowell on his new book is available here. Highly recommended! Update: The Sowell interview, segment 2, is here. Segment 3 is here and 4 is here. I like this quote from segment 5, the conclusion:
. . . We’re becoming a nation of people who are propagandized from elementary school right on through graduate school in a certain vision of the world. Only the few, for one reason or another, stop and say — “wait a minute!” — they are the only ones left that we have to depend on.