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The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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The Mythology Zone of Intellectual Elites

The existence of this podcast is proof of what Tyler makes a fantastic point, which is that academics today have many ways they can reach an audience much larger and consequential than just the few students they teach in their classes. Another great presentation at the conference was given by Stephen Pinker, who you'll remember from episode 26. Here's what he had to say about what he calls the sacred beliefs of intellectual elites. It's not clear that these are treated as empirical hypotheses so much as things that any decent person has to believe.

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