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> I'm going to be a nonconformist myself and oppose the near-univeral approval of Sowell in this discussion.

> It reaffirmed the rather right-wing political views that I'd inherited from my parents.

I really did not know HN was this conservative. I am very surprised at all this unanimous approval of Sowell.

Same here - it's really quite baffling.

Sowell even thinks that racial discrimination in hiring doesn't require government intervention. He constructs an argument in Basic Economics that market forces will rectify this kind of social ill.

HN isn’t necessarily this conservative, there is a lot of selection bias in a headline. Sowell draws out the libertarians.

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