When Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas first encountered Thomas Sowell’s work as a young law student, he rejected it.
Years later, at a pivotal moment in his life, he picked up Race and Economics. This time, the argument inside it quietly rearranges everything he thought he knew. Justice Thomas describes it as finding “water in the desert.”
That discovery would change the course of his thinking and begin a friendship with Sowell that lasted more than four-decades.
