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Moral Crusades with Paul Rossi

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

CHAPTER

The Power of Moral Crusades

Sowell says the real purpose of social crusades is to proclaim oneself to be on the side of the angels. Sowell: When you are in a hot political crusade and full of moral indignation, you often don't have time to check the facts. So I think that the reason so many issues of our time are so polarizing is that these issues have become packaged as moral crusades," he said.

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