Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
constitution
To say the Constitution is living is to say that it's dead.
teaching equal-treatment class
When I was teaching at an institution that bent over backward for foreign students, I was asked in class one day: "What is your policy toward foreign students?" My reply was: "To me, all students are the same. I treat them all the same and hold them all to the same standards." The next semester there was an organized boycott of my classes by foreign students. When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
athlete income steel
The left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high - or higher - incomes of professional athletes, entertainers, or best-selling authors like Danielle Steel.
good-intentions welfare states
The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.
white people black
Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.
selfish war care
The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against 'the rich' and big business, they don't care how much collateral damage there is to workers who end up end up unemployed.
expression promise noble
Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.
commitment talking knowing
A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.
desire different desire-to-live
However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free.
cost easy persist
It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.
disappointment regret persistence
We never really know and the very fact that there are such words in the language as disappointment, regret, etc., is testimony to the pervasiveness and persistence of this feature of the human condition.
smart thinking may
Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart.
independent intellectual auras
The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura of scientific processes and results is often appropriated by other intellectuals.
research study gender
Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses.