Bari Weiss interviewed UK Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch at length in the hour-plus video below. The video is posted here at the Free Press with an introduction by Bari. I have also posted the video below.
At about 12:00, Bari asks Badenoch if she read any books that influenced her intellectual evolution. Good question!
If Thomas Sowell came to mind, as it did to mine, you are correct. Badenoch found Sowell’s Basic Economics on a Google search for books about the subject and, she declares, “My whole world changed.” It’s a powerful moment that is worth taking in.
Badenoch also names Hayek’s Road to Serfdom (she names it first), Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson’s Why Nations Fail, Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind, and Roger Scruton’s How To Be a Conservative.
It’s that time of the year. I thought some readers might find this useful as a sort of public service announcement.
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