Posted on 03/30/2013 3:46:53 PM PDT by jazusamo
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An interview with the Hoover economist on his new book, Intellectuals and Race.
AmSpec: You’ve written a lot about intellectuals and also a lot about race. Why did you feel a need to put out a separate book on intellectuals and race?
Sowell: Parts of this were published originally in the second edition of Intellectuals and Society, although other parts are new. But I wrote it in part because I was correcting a mistake I made, which was that I didn’t listen to my research assistant when she told me that this material should be published as a separate book. I didn’t think that it was getting the attention that it should because second editions don’t usually bring that much attention. I also thought that the subject was important enough that it shouldn’t be buried where it was.
AmSpec: One of the things that comes across in the book is that it’s possible different racial groups will have different outcomes but those differences may be in no way related to genetics. So, what are the causes of difference?
Sowell: The first thing is that it’s not a question that it’s “possible” they will have differences. We have centuries of recorded history that say gross differences between groups have been the norm. But what is assumed both by many intellectuals and courts of law is that such differences are unusual. What’s unusual, if not non-existent, is an even representation of groups in different kinds of endeavors. In fact, any time that you find such a thing, which is rare enough in itself, almost invariably some kind of quota [is] imposed. Absent a quota, I can’t find any place anywhere in the world where different racial and ethnic groups have the same track record in any field.
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Love reading Sowell. Thanks for the ping to the two interviews jaz. Great stuff.
That was salient, hard-hitting point after point by the Genius of our Time. Thank you, Jaz.
This man makes me think.
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