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The Book Club

The Book Club: Race and Culture by Thomas Sowell With Farah Jimenez

The Book Club

PragerU

Books, Arts

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of The Book Club, Michael Knowles and Farah Jimenez discuss Race and Culture, Thomas Sowell’s powerful analysis on why culture has a profound impact on the socioeconomic outcomes of different minority groups. Is systemic racism really to blame? In our fast-paced world, it’s tough to make reading a priority. At least it used to be. At Thinkr.org, they summarize the key ideas from new and noteworthy nonfiction, giving you access to an entire library of great books in bite-size form. Read or listen to hundreds of titles in a matter of minutes: start your free trial today at Thinkr.org

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Book Club. I'm Michael Knowles and on this episode we will be reading

0:16.0

Thomas Soul probably our most requested author on this entire show we will be reading

0:21.4

race and culture two very controversial topics. But first in

0:26.4

our fast-paced world it is tough to make reading a priority or at least it used

0:31.3

to be but at thinker.org they summarize the key ideas from new and noteworthy non-fiction

0:36.4

giving you access to an entire library of great books in bite-sized form.

0:41.2

You can read or listen to hundreds of titles in a matter of minutes

0:44.7

from old classics like Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People to recent bestsellers

0:49.8

like Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life. If you want to challenge your preconceptions,

0:55.0

Mets-O-Mets, I don't know. If you want to expand your horizons, yeah, maybe, okay.

1:01.0

Or if you want to sound smart at cocktail parties, that's something we could all use.

1:06.2

Go to thinker.org, that is THI-N-K-R, no E, no time for that, start a free trial and put your mind in motion.

1:14.4

All right, let's put our minds in motion.

1:16.4

We have race and culture, a worldview by Thomas Sol,

1:20.8

joined by the lovely Farah Jimenez, CEO of a nonprofit and chairman of

1:27.0

Broaden Liberty.

1:29.0

Farah, thank you for coming on.

1:31.0

Thank you for having me.

1:32.0

So Farah, we have a rule on this show. All the authors have to

1:36.7

be dead and gone, except sometimes there are some books that we want to read so badly

1:42.0

that we kind of change the rules a little bit.

1:44.1

So now we've changed the rules enough that you don't have to be dead, but you do have to be 90.

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