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  • Is Reality Optional?

  • And Other Essays
  • By: Thomas Sowell
  • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
  • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (166 ratings)

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Is Reality Optional?

By: Thomas Sowell
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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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Written so long ago yet relevant today

It’s actually sad that this was written so long ago and the issues/problems he talks about are no better…and actually worse.

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Sanity…finally

I appreciated the author’s clarity of thought applied to the many social issues of today. We’ll worth the listen and reflection.

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10/10

Sometimes wile listening to writings of Thomas Sowell my mind will wander and I’m forced to rewind to catch what I missed. This collection of essays kept my attention the entire way through, possibly the shorter format assisted my attention span but I found the entire collection engaging and educational.

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Food for logic circuits

Almost 100 years of personal memories plus 1,000’s of years of other people’s experiences

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Another great one

I haven’t read a bad Sowell book yet! Every time I crack one open I think, “Go get ‘em Tom!”

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Excellent work by Sowell, but dated

Thomas Sowell is truly one of the greatest minds of this generation, but these essays are from the 1990s. Nothing groundbreaking here.

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Amazing work

Another Sowell classic that should be read by every young adult. “It would take congress 30 days to make instant coffee!” Hilarious, sad, and true statement.

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Pithy and Insightful, Never Condescending

Excellent vocal stand-in for Dr. Sowell delivers short essays on a variety of subjects still relevant to society today

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Wonderfully woven wit and wisdom

Thomas Sowell draws on his vast experience and observation and delivers thought provoking reasoning and insights.

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Thomas Sowell sees it all so clearly

What he says in his articles in 1990s have become frighteningly even more true now

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