Youtube milton friedman free to choose6/12/2023 ![]() So how could anyone, I wondered, think Sowell was not worth paying attention to?īut the editor’s response to me expressed a sentiment I found in plenty of others who shared my political views. ![]() To his fans, he is one of “ the most luminous minds this country has produced.” Milton Friedman said he was as close to a genius as a human could be. Steven Pinker has called Sowell “among the most brilliant thinkers in the world today-deep, original, creative, fearless, intimidatingly erudite.” Amy Chua of Yale Law school calls Sowell “one of the most important thinkers of our time.” The Wall Street Journal has called him an “ American sage.” His bestselling Basic Economics has gone through five editions and been published in half a dozen languages. He has written nearly 50 books, many of which have thousands of glowing reviews on Amazon. Millions of people watch videos of Thomas Sowell on YouTube. ![]() I thought then, and I think now, that this attitude was crazy. The editor said he liked my writing, but didn’t understand my choice of subject. “Sowell? Who pays attention to him?” The editor thought Thomas Sowell was simply not worth paying attention to. ![]() Back before starting Current Affairs, when I was a freelancer, I once pitched an editor on a long review of the works of conservative economist Thomas Sowell. ![]()
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