[Mr Ducklips]

I am convinced that Steyn and Thomas Sowell are the two smartest people in the whole wide world.

[George Smiley]

I just finished Sowell's "A Personal Odyssey."

Not a memoir per se, but selected recollections.

And now that I know more details about his life, the fact that he is where he is now is ten times as amazing to me as I thought previously.

Would you believe that he used to be a Marxist?