My big regret with Sowell is only finding out about him around 2018 or 2019. Guy was already in his 80s by that point and he's getting on up in years. Hardly any appearances on shows, and is he even writing anything right now?

Better to have learned about him than not. I just hate that he could go any second, I can't think of any contemporary still-living theorist that matches him. But that could just be the vestiges of the typical American non-leftist quasi-fetishization of any black person who happens to agree with them. Hard to shake off after decades in public education and the university system.

A great mind and a great person, but would he be so well known among the rightist (or, non-left at the least) circles online if he wasn't black? I hope so. I can't say I'm well-read enough on his work and works of other contemporary thinkers to comment on that.*

*Picked up a book of his for my Dad some time back but it's buried with a bunch of other books somewhere atm. I wanted to pick up Black Rednecks and White Liberals but that was out of print at the time. Quite surprising

My big regret with Sowell is only finding out about him around 2018 or 2019. Guy was already in his 80s by that point and he's getting on up in years. Hardly any appearances on shows, and is he even writing anything right now?

Better to have learned about him than not. I just hate that he could go any second, I can't think of any contemporary still-living theorist that matches him. But that could just be the vestiges of the typical American non-leftist quasi-fetishization of any black person who happens to agree with them. Hard to shake off after decades in public education and the university system.

A great mind and a great person, but would he be so well known among the rightist (or, non-left at the least) circles online if he wasn't black? I hope so. I can't say I'm well-read enough on his work and works of other contemporary thinkers to comment on that.