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Thomas Sowell: not many academics win fame for being both a scholarly theorizer and a popular writer. This prolific researcher has done so, in the process pioneering a niche once thought to be an oxymoron: the black conservative thinker.("Live" with TAE)(Interview)

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A senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, economist Thomas Sowell has written extensively on race, culture, and economics. While most economists focus on rational man, Sowell has shown a particular interest in irrational man--man in the grip of visions he refuses to test because he has an emotional investment in them. Among his 34 books on topics ranging from immigration to Marxism to childhood education, it is hard to know where Sowell has had the most impact. He considers his most important work to be A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, which examines the ideas that lie behind the main political controversies of the past ...

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