
The Great Book of the 20th Century: “The Gulag Archipelago” | Daniel J Mahoney
From Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words
Published 1/23/2026

From Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words
Published 1/23/2026
All of Thomas Sowell’s “considerable learning” is front and center in his 2007 book A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles. Sowell, a Marxist-turned, unofficial 20th-century spokesman for capitalism, theorizes that humans are inclined to adopt one of two worldviews — the…