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Steven Pinker on Thomas Sowell

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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There Are No Solutions, Only Trade-Offs

One of Professor Soul's big themes is the idea of there are no solutions, only trade-offs. Steven Pinker: I'm not so sure that if we'd never had an Apollo program, we would have had enough money to solve world hunger. "I don't think we failed to solve hunger because every smart person was attracted by the space program," he says.

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