In his book Intellectuals and Society, Thomas Sowell takes America's "public intellectuals" on a well deserved trip to the woodshed.  He makes many interesting claims, including this one: "The unarticulated cultural distillations of mass experience over the generations are often summarily dismissed as mere prejudices [by public intellectuals]." "The unarticulated cultural distillations of mass experience over the generations."  What is Sowell referring to?  Why, common sense, of course.  In fact, every book and every article Sowell has written is replete with common sense.  Sowell is a true master of common sense.  I have written two books with "common sense" in the titles, Common Sense Nation and Reclaiming Common Sense, and Sowell is one of the most important influences on the way of thinking found in those books.  My grandparents got me going on the common sense good...(Read Full Article)