Books, Arts & Manners: Behold: Symmetry

A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, by Thomas Sowell (Morrow, 273 pp., $15.95)

In A Conflict of Visions, Thomas Sowell tries to explain why it is that certain regular political alignments occur as they do: why a given group of people will predictably line up on one side of apparently unconnected issues—abortion, civil rights, and disarmament, say—while another group will be just as predictably on the other side. Sowell says: “It happens too often to be coincidence, and it is too uncontrolled to be a plot.”

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A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, by Thomas Sowell (Morrow, 273 pp., $15.95)

In A Conflict of Visions, Thomas Sowell tries to explain why it is that certain regular political alignments occur as they do: why a given group of people will predictably line up on one side of apparently unconnected issues—abortion, civil rights, and disarmament, say—while another group will be just as predictably on the other side. Sowell says: “It happens too often to be coincidence, and it is too uncontrolled to be a plot.”