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Black Rednecks and White Liberals, by Thomas Sowell (Encounter, 372 pp., $25.95)

WHAT a surprise, Thomas Sowell has written another brilliant book. He’s written about 30 of them—books, that is, and brilliant ones, or at least excellent ones. You won’t find a dud in the bunch. His books are on race, education, history, economics-and there is a quirky autobiography befitting the man. Sowell has also written hundreds of scholarly essays, magazine pieces, and reviews. He has done a newspaper column almost continually since the late 1970s. He is a model of the public intellectual, to use a term he probably doesn’t like.

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Jay Nordlinger

Jay Nordlinger was a senior editor of National Review and a book fellow at National Review Institute.

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Black Rednecks and White Liberals, by Thomas Sowell (Encounter, 372 pp., $25.95)

WHAT a surprise, Thomas Sowell has written another brilliant book. He’s written about 30 of them—books, that is, and brilliant ones, or at least excellent ones. You won’t find a dud in the bunch. His books are on race, education, history, economics-and there is a quirky autobiography befitting the man. Sowell has also written hundreds of scholarly essays, magazine pieces, and reviews. He has done a newspaper column almost continually since the late 1970s. He is a model of the public intellectual, to use a term he probably doesn’t like.