VIDEO 7:16 min. This week on Uncommon Knowledge, Thomas Sowell, economist, social observer, journalist and author. A fellow at the Hoover Institution, Dr. Sowell has just published a new volume, Dismantling America. Whom does Dr. Sowell accuse of dismantling the nation? Among others, the President of the United States. I see Obama as someone who all his life has been associated with, and part of, a group of people who fundamentally don’t believe in the principles of this country — people who think that Americans need to be changed, whether we want to be or not.