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Thomas Sowell is a hero to many Christian conservatives for his frank, well-researched, and contrarian studies of the socio-economic conditions of black Americans. But how many of those Christians know that Sowell is an atheist? Does it matter? Perhaps more than you’d think.

A onetime Marxist, economist Thomas Sowell came to his free-market beliefs by way of reflection and observation. But then again, so did two of his mentors, Milton Friedman and George Stigler, who both spoke of having liberal political inclinations in their own student days. Commentary By Jason Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a columnist for The Wall Street Journal. The following is the second of three excerpts from Jason Riley’s new book “Maverick: A Biography of Th...