Summary of Thomas Sowell's The Thomas Sowell Reader

Excerpt From Summary of Thomas Sowell's The Thomas Sowell Reader

#1

There was a time when the ant and the grasshopper lived together in peace. One day, the grasshopper visited the ant, asking for some food, and the ant refused. The next summer, the same thing happened. The ant and the grasshopper repeated this cycle for years.

#2

Lefty was a communist who believed that people should be able to do whatever they wanted. He was also a bit of a fool, as he spent all of his time enjoying the carefree life of a grasshopper, oblivious to the fact that winter was approaching.