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Good. You have done a service to the intellectual life of america by writing a biography of Thomas Sowell and ill begin in an odd way. How do you explain si think i know the answer but nevertheless i want your answer. How do you explain that one of the finest minds of the last half century is unknown to have america. Well, i guess to use todays parlance, thomas soul was canceled long time ago. Hes a conservative. Hes a black conservative. And way back in the 1970s when he began writing about t racial controversies, he got in trouble with a lot of his fellow intellectuals and in the academy. And in the media and hes never really sure that. I think its something that has cost him professionally in terms of notoriety and its probably the main reason a lot of people today known names like Tanehisi Coates but not Thomas Sowell notwithstanding the fact that hes written circles around those folks. Maybe all ofthem combined. And not only in terms of brett of his work but also the rigor of the
Jason riley is a pleasure to be with you. You have been on my radio show and on a number of videos and in the wall street journal you are pretty ubiquitous in my line of practice. Its good to be here. You have done a service to the into a intellectual life of america and how do you explain, i think i already answer but nevertheless, how do you explain that one of the finest minds of the last half century is unknown to have america . [laughter] but he was canceled long time ago. He is a conservative in a black conservative. And with the racial controversy and in the media and never has really shook that in terms of notoriety that a lot of people like cornell west that notwithstanding the fact that building circles around those folks. Not only the breath of the work and match by those folks. It is eight. It is a truly important book. Was anything surprising in your research . And then to try to get them to cooperate and the number of times over the years. And not too much surprising one