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Academic acceleration has no negative long-term effects on the psychological well-being of gifted youth t.co/WeK4RFve3u via @VanderbiltU
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and Late-Talking Children, which anticipated Simon Baron-Cohen on the extreme male brain...Sowell is a libertarian conservative, which makes him taboo in mainstream intellectual circles, but even those who disagree [as I often do] are well advised to grasp his facts and arguments
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The Quest for Cosmic Justice, which compares this quixotic pursuit with the quest for human justice; Intellectuals and Society, an uncomfortable exposé of the follies of all-star intellectuals; ...
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A Conflict of Visions, which identifies the rival theories of the human condition underlying left-wing and right-wing political ideologies [the basis for the "Politics" chapter in The Blank Slate]; t.co/cA4VYkVATZ
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As I said in an interview last year t.co/36ItqZIh5A his 30 books include "his Culture trilogy which (among other things) anticipated Jared Diamond’s ideas in Guns, Germs, and Steel and explains the ubiquity of anti-Semitism; ...
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