Thomas Sowell, age 94, is reportedly writing his final book. Subject is k-12 education

He told Peter Robinson during an interview on Friday last week that the subject of the book is k-12 education, the field he has the strongest feelings on.

Sowell acknowledged it will be his final work as he approaches his end, and as such, readers will encounter a more emotional syntax than what they have come to expect from his 20+ other works.

The book will be titled “The Whirlwind We Have Reaped”

This is the theme per Sowell himself:

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Traditional public schools are radically different from almost any other institution in society. Whether it's a hospital, sports arenas, automobile dealerships, churches, charities or whatever, those institutions in order to survive as an institution have to have some clientele that they must please enough for the clientele to come to them. Traditional public schools are radically different in that compulsory attendance laws, provide them with a clientele. The clientele has no choice in the matter. And there is no competition among different traditional public schools because each one has a monopoly and its own district.

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Unknown to some, Thomas Sowell is not just a political commentator. He spent 3 decades researching early childhood verbal development and education in New York City. The book in part will be a memoir on his experience observing the poorest public schools in the city. He spent over 1000 hours between 1974 and 1990 shadowing the halls of these schools for his research.


He has already chosen the opening Epigraph as well:

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"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould

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Props to him for living such a healthy life that he is able to write entire books well into his 90s.


What a giant of Conservatism.