Stumbled across this quote from Dr Sowell. Sadly it’s pretty relevant.
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He's still writing stuff. His most recent books are one on Discrimination and Disparities and another one on the bankruptcy of the public schooling system. However, these are a good deal shorter than his magna opera of the past.
I had the same sense about him that you did, and I (hope I) don't have this racial nonsense as a non-American.
I will say that there is possibly someone out there who is a greater thinker who is a specialist, for example on Byzantine history between 565 and 632, or the microeconomics of price rounding. But Sowell is without any doubt the greatest generalist out there. I know, I know, damning with faint praise, as generalists tend to be bunk.
On a lark I decided to see if my law school's library happened to have any of his work and to my surprise they did! Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study
Already about 1/4 through (it's only 198p not including the references) and it's pretty illuminating. Had no idea India had been engaging in affirmative action policies much longer than the US.
It'd be interesting seeing Sowell revisit the topic now that the text is 18 years old.