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Who are some other scholars writing books for a general audience like Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Thomas Sowell, Noam Chomsky, etc.?

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>>16092143
> a general audience
You mean morons and midwits?

>> No.16092220

>>16092143
Taleb is a probability scholar who writes about probability.

Sowell is an economics scholar who writes about economics.

Chomsky is a linguistics scholar who writes about... How anyone who supports America is bad and anyone who hates it is good.

Also, none of them is a literary writer who's written actual literature, so maybe you should post your question on /sci/ instead. Perhaps Taleb with his book of aphorism can be counted as a decent literary writer (to be fair, he can - the aphorisms are rather good) and Chomsky as a linguist bears some remote relevance to literature, but that's it.

And, to answer your question, some books by Harold Bloom, such as How to Read and Why, are quite approachable and were designed for wider audiences.

Dawkins's books about evolution (not the ones about religion) are very entertaining and instructive.

>> No.16092463

>>16092220
Thanks anon