๐Ÿ“š 6 Books mentioned in "Discrimination and Disparities | Thomas Sowell | POLITICS | Rubin Report" of The Rubin Report

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Episode: Discrimination and Disparities | Thomas Sowell | POLITICS | Rubin Report

Published on April 18, 2018

Hereโ€™s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

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yeah Alison Wonderland and the rest of them

Sowell mentions this as another book he took out from the public library as a child, along with the Doctor Dolittle books.

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Discrimination and Disparities

by Thomas Sowell

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so first I thought I want do a little bit on your history and I want to focus on your new book

The host introduces the topic of the interview, stating they will focus on Sowell's new book.

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Doctor Dolittle

by Hugh Lofting

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One of the books was the Doctor Dolittle books

Sowell mentions this as one of the first books he took out from the public library as a child.

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Enlightenment Now

by Steven Pinker

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and you know his new book enlightenment now is that things are trending more positively

The host mentions Pinker's new book and its theme of positive trends.

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Essays in positive economics

by Milton Friedman

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I was reading of Milton Friedman's he and his wife had a joint autobiography and she's looking at one point she looking back on in the days when she would ride the IND subway in Manhattan

Sowell mentions reading the joint autobiography of Milton Friedman and his wife, recalling a specific anecdote from it.

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The Better Angels of Our Nature

by Steven Pinker

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Pinker's book about about violence and you know that throughout what the Western world the homicide rates did a u-turn in the 1960s

Sowell refers to Pinker's work on the history of violence trends, specifically mentioning the u-turn in homicide rates in the 1960s.

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