![]() ![]() ![]() This is essentially aggregated from a variety of Sowell’s work since much of it is repetitive - the primary books I’m addressing are Discrimination and Disparities and Black Rednecks, White Liberals, combined with the vast expanse of Sowell video interviews and clips available on the Internet. Given the gargantuan volume of Sowell’s popular writing, I’m going to need to focus on the central cluster of claims Sowell is known for. Despite his bluster about Evidence and Facts that purportedly come to knock down the house of left economic and racial ideas, Sowell is unique even among the conservatives he’s usually cited with for his immunity to real knowledge and his social-scientific sophistry. Sowell’s arguments are, in the main, sophomoric in construction and ideologically resistant to intervention from the real world. ![]() Many of Sowell’s avid fans, of which the Internet contains multitudes, make the conjecture that this is because people on the left are afraid of Sowell’s no-nonsense, fact-based challenges to their arguments. ![]() It is also claimed - as I’ve heard many times: he’s never heard anyone engage the arguments of Thomas Sowell (or any number of other Black conservatives). I’ve seen his name trotted out all over the place - most recently, via a tweet by a conservative thinker who claimed Sowell as ranking above all the liberation movements of the past. There is something of an obsession among our community with regards to an economist named Thomas Sowell. ![]()
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