Thomas Sowell shows that people known as “intellects” might just not be that very smart.
Indicting the Anointed
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The Closing of the Liberal Mind

The New Republic unleashes a vapid, mean-spirited, and indefensible attack on one of the most important intellectual figures of our time.
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The Closing of the Liberal Mind: TNR Attacks Thomas Sowell
Despite the fact that in an act of petty malice and politically-motivated spite, Leon Wieseltier has banned me (or mention of my work) from The New Republic for twenty-five years, I have always regarded the literary pages that he edits as the best “back of the book” section in the opinion magazine business. No more.
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