What Thomas Sowell Sees — and Sees Through

To say that Thomas Sowell has written many books that have influenced the U.S. conservative movement would be an understatement worthy of the great man’s own autobiography.

Sowell is the author of 45 original books. Among these are Black Education: Myths and Tragedies (1972), a discussion of which schools and teachers have managed — and which have failed — to educate black American children; Ethnic America (1981), a winner of the Mencken Award for Best Book and perhaps the seminal history of America’s core populations; Preferential Policies (1990), one of very few analyses of affirmative action from a global perspective; Migrations and Cultures (1996), which introduced “culturalism” as a theory of human variation on par with, and rival to, both genetic hereditarianism and Ibram Kendi–style racial complaint; and Black Rednecks and White Liberals (2005), a fascinating summary of the historical roots of the disruptive ghetto culture common to the hood and the holler.

About the Author

Wilfred Reilly

Wilfred Reilly is an associate professor of political science at Kentucky State University and the author, most recently, of Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me.

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To say that Thomas Sowell has written many books that have influenced the U.S. conservative movement would be an understatement worthy of the great man’s own autobiography.

Sowell is the author of 45 original books. Among these are Black Education: Myths and Tragedies (1972), a discussion of which schools and teachers have managed — and which have failed — to educate black American children; Ethnic America (1981), a winner of the Mencken Award for Best Book and perhaps the seminal history of America’s core populations; Preferential Policies (1990), one of very few analyses of affirmative action from a global perspective; Migrations and Cultures (1996), which introduced “culturalism” as a theory of human variation on par with, and rival to, both genetic hereditarianism and Ibram Kendi–style racial complaint; and Black Rednecks and White Liberals (2005), a fascinating summary of the historical roots of the disruptive ghetto culture common to the hood and the holler.

About the Author

Wilfred Reilly

Wilfred Reilly is an associate professor of political science at Kentucky State University and the author, most recently, of Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me.