Dr. Sowell: Stupidity Trickling Down

The always brilliant and thoughtful Thomas Sowell has a piece today on a subject I find disturbing... and which is, I think, a great example of the alarming direction being taken by reasoned debate in today's society. He says, in part:

If education provides anything, it should be an ability to think -- that is, to weigh one idea against an opposing idea, and to use evidence and logic to try to determine what is true and what is false. That is precisely what our schools and colleges are failing to teach today.

Read the whole thing.

There's something else that's a component of, or at least a partner to this: the constant, loud demonization of the opposition in public debate. It's something I've been meaning to write about, and I will do that in a bit. Stay tuned.