Inescapable Disparities
Thomas Sowell’s new book reminds us that the world has never been a level playing field and we will not be able to engineer one.
Hannah Gal
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Thomas Sowell’s new book reminds us that the world has never been a level playing field and we will not be able to engineer one.
The collective wisdom of the tax-paying citizenry—literally the sense of the commons—is very often correct.
A bright student with a tumultuous home life, Sowell was admitted to one of New York’s most competitive high schools but dropped out at age 16.
In his 2000 memoir A Personal Odyssey, Sowell recounts a parable that was read to him as a young boy and which he never forgot.