Posted on 09/15/2023 1:18:31 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell
https://youtu.be/pn2gda_phAA?feature=shared
Thomas Sowell, age 93, is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution. With his usual fierceness and feistiness intact, Dr. Sowell returns to Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson to discuss his latest book (he’s published over 40 titles over his career), Social Justice Fallacies. In this wide-ranging interview, Dr. Sowell discusses the consequences of our society’s embarking on a quest for equality at the expense of merit. Even if every group in society is given an equal chance, he explains, these groups will end up with disparate levels of income or education. Dr. Sowell also criticizes the concept of systemic racism; his research reveals it doesn’t appear to apply to blacks (watch the interview to see why that word isn’t capitalized here) who are married. The interview concludes with Dr. Sowell reading a moving passage from his book.
Marshall McLuhan alleged that Alexis de Toqueville counterpoised Freedom against Equality. (There’s some corroboration for that interpretation in Vol. 2 of “Democracy in America.)
Thank you for this post. Thomas Sowell is a great man, and I’m glad he’s still publishing books at age 93.
Still going strong. A very,very brave guy!
He will be on with Mark Levin Sat 16 at 7 central in FoxNews
I’m convinced that Thomas Sowell and John Maxwell are in a competition on who can write the most books in one lifetime. LOL
Sowell has a brilliant mind and is maybe the most ignored, most publicly unrecgnized, most brilliant intellectual of our day.
Why is so ignored, so publicly unrecgnized? Because long ago he left the Left’s intellectual plantation, which put him on the blacklist of most of the mainstream media.
Victor Davis Hanson is the only one from Stanford that saw the light and came to his senses about Trump.
BTW the lowlifes from Stanford that were recommended to Trump were back stabbing bastard plants.
Bkmk
Mark Levin was(is?)another low-life vile vicious never Trump bastard.
Wrong! wrong! He has a YouTube video where he explains how he was wrong about Trump.
Nope.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Sowell is brilliant. A national treasure.
Agreed. One of the greatest minds of our times.
One of the greatest minds of our times.
I liked Walter E. Williams more. He was funny. Talked about his wife.
Dr. Sowell has forgotten more than Joe Xiden will ever know.
I loved the way he always talked about having the right to sell his kidney if he wanted to.
I wish I could have taken a class in economics from Dr. Sowell. He can explain things that the mainstream economists either do not understand or choose to obscure.
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