Thomas Sowell is no ordinary right-wing pundit. For one thing, he is actually a subject expert, having a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. For another, he has won many honors off limits to hacks. From a National Humanities Medal to positions at Cornell and UCLA, he is among the most decorated of conservative intellectuals writing today. Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker cites Sowell approvingly, and he has been praised by The Economist. Among conservatives, Sowell is akin to what John Kenneth Galbraith was for the left, a hallowed figure approaching the status of a deity.
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