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Thomas Sowell doesn't just run circles around the various disciplines, he runs in and out and all around them (economics, history, empiricism, etc). This is why so many hyper-specialized academics don't understand him and often resort to belittling. It doesn't make sense to them how he can paint such wholistic yet simple cause and effect portraits of political/economic/social history throughout the ages. But then again, the ultimate pitfall of an academic is quite similar to that thing Che feared...to get so lost one's own minutia that you become exactly what you once hated—and for many academics, that is, "a person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic toward a person", or in other words, a "bigot."