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Steven Pinker on Thomas Sowell

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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Do You Think Tom Soul Is a Taboo Breaker?

I know that you taught a course at Harvard with Alan Dershowitz about taboos, and I'm interested to know if you think soul is very active in breaking taboos. One of the things that attracted me to soul was I felt like he was willing to address subjects which weren't really being addressed by other people. Tom does not endorse the idea that the differences in test scores between African Americans and whites has any basis in genetic differences. And perhaps it's for this reason that even though Tom adamantly rejects any kind of biological explanation, he just as adamantly calls for intensive and open-minded inquiry on causes of gap.

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