It is a peculiar feeling when someone's death makes you aware of how much you might have enjoyed them had you known

I guess you are only as plugged-in as your ignorance of important figures reveals.

My undergraduate degree is in International Economic Development.  It is a lifelong interest.  Forty some years ago, I became aware of Milton Friedman - not keen at first but much more enthusiastic later.  Another hero, Hayek, perhaps thirty years ago.  Similarly, Thomas Sowell - a wonderful economist with an expansive interest and a wonderfully insightful way of turning a phrase.  

And apparently, in all these years, I simply was unaware of Walter E. Williams who passed away today.  An inexplicable mystery to me given the cognitive circles I travel in but there it is.  No one to blame, just a mystery.

Someone posted this interview of him from sometime in the early 2000s.  

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Rest in Peace.  And now I'll go find his books to discover what I carelessly overlooked all these years.