Is There Something Wrong With Assimilation?

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James flynn was a liberal, even self proclaimed progressive. He discovered the now uponamous flynn where ic scores have been going up on average about three points every decade. It has to be something cultural, environmental, generationl and his explanation was we shifted from an agricultural, a farming base economy, to an industrial based economy,. Now to a digitala information based economy. And that makes a people better at abstract reasoning.

Shermer speaks with Jason Riley about Maverick — the first-ever biography of Thomas Sowell, one of the great social theorists of our age. In a career spanning more than a half century, Sowell has written over thirty books, covering topics from economic history and social inequality to political theory, race, and culture. His bold and unsentimental assaults on liberal orthodoxy have endeared him to many readers but have also enraged fellow intellectuals, the civil-rights establishment, and much of the mainstream media. The result has been a lack of acknowledgment of his scholarship among critics who prioritize political correctness.

Shermer and Riley discuss: Riley’s documentary on Sowell; Sowell’s philosophy that “there are no solutions, only trade-offs”; mismatch theory and affirmative action; race and IQ; why Riley thinks liberals make it harder for blacks to succeed; political correctness; BLM, antiracism, reparations; charity and welfare; income inequality and UBI, and much more…