it's Tocqueville for surehttps://twitter.com/HotepJesus/status/1504065622799491076 …
-
Show this thread
-
Replying to @lionel_trolling
also i feel compelled to say that sowell isn’t that impressive and i do not understand the obsession with him in some quarters
12 replies 0 retweets 189 likes -
Replying to @jbouie @lionel_trolling
An episode on Sowell is one of the most requested by KYE listeners
6 replies 0 retweets 99 likes -
I'm trying to think if there's anything distinctive in Sowell that isn't already in Hayek or the Chicago School.
1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet @MatthewSitman and
For a long time Sowell was best known to the public for the view that the contrasting fortunes of various once-marginalized ethnic groups proved that culture rather than structural discrimination was the operative factor, which owes more to neocons like Glazer than Hayek
1 reply 0 retweets 15 likes -
Replying to @erikmbaker @MatthewSitman and
That's fair, although what I remember from TS's anti-affirmative action pieces are arguments bases on arguments about perverse or ineffectual results of state intervention that seemed fairly standard libertarian ones.
1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet @MatthewSitman and
Oh yeah that's definitely there too, and he's written plenty on Hayek. But I think the mystique around him originally came from the sense that he was willing to say "un-PC" things about culture and poverty at the height of the "underclass" panic
2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes -
Replying to @erikmbaker @HeerJeet and
As we've learned from the intellectual dark web types, cultivating an aura of transgression and forbidden wisdom is key for people who want to be seen as the thinking man's conservative
1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes -
Replying to @erikmbaker @HeerJeet and
He's most interesting as a historical figure to me. Sowell during the Cornell takeover is one of those crystal moments where you can see history unfolding.
1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
Very interesting historically (and that Cornell moment is a good flashpoint) & has a huge audience (he gets quoted & cited all the time) but whenever I've read him he seems like a standard Hayekian.
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.