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Is Reality Optional?

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Is Reality Optional?

Written by: Thomas Sowell
Narrated by: Leon Nixon
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Thomas Sowell challenges all the assumptions of contemporary liberalism on issues ranging from the economy to race to education in this collection of controversial essays, and captures his thoughts on politics, race, and common sense with a section at the end for thought-provoking quotes.

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This book is very much out of date and reflects a verify old way of looking at various people. It focuses on the homeless and thankfully was written before modern LGBT. The editor praises failed economies (Sri Lanka) and condemns very successful economies like India and China in 2025. It praises the British for eliminating trans Atlantic slave trade, but does not mention indentured labor or trade in slave generated commodities. While Sati (Widow burning) may have saved a few, the 122 famines that occurred in India (the last being in 1940's) in British India, yet the Indian government he criticizes has never had a single famine while the population tripled in the past 75 years. His facts are very poorly researched and the book suffers from a very out dated and opinionated perspective.

This book is hopelessly out of date.

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