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VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow Remembers His Role In The Great Tom Sowell’s Brilliant Career And Wishes Him A Happy 90th Birthday!

By Peter Brimelow

06/30/2020

Thomas Sowell turns 90 today. I most sincerely wish him Many Happy Returns. I summarized our relationship when he stopped writing his column in VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow: My Role In Thomas Sowell’s Brilliant Career; below we list more of my own and VDARE.com’s coverage of him.

Sowell is also mentioned in my Time To Rethink Immigration, first published in National Review, June 22, 1992; and in For Whom the Bell Tolls, my October 24, 1994 Forbes Magazine article on The Bell Curve (originally slated to be a cover story but Steve Forbes wimped out).

And this is the epigraph to the "Immigration Has Consequences: Cultural, Social, Environmental … " chapter of my 1995 book Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster (still available in Kindle!):

The most obvious fact about the history of racial and ethnic groups is how different they have been — and still are…

Human differences are often assumed away in social theories … But this fashionable view of society ignores the fact that groups may carry their own messages with them from country to country — a very different message from those who live cheek-by-jowl with them in the same society and sit next to them in the same school rooms or on the same factory assembly line.

— THOMAS SOWELL,

The Economics and Politics of Race: An International Perspective

See also Alien Nation Review: Lofty Rhetoric Or Hard Facts? by Thomas Sowell, May 18, 1995

Elsewhere on VDARE.com:

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