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Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World

And that's what shocked himand caused him to begin to rethinklots of his assumptions

And that's what shocked him
and caused him to begin to rethink
lots of his assumptions

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And that's what shocked him and caused him
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to begin to rethink lots of his assumptions.
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5 seconds
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41
Timestamp in Movie
00:25:43
Uploaded
May 10, 2025
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documentary, biography
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Free To Choose Enterprise

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Traces Thomas Sowell's journey from humble beginnings to the Hoover Institution, becoming one of our era's most controversial economists, political philosophers, and prolific authors.
So it wasn't academia that caused him - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:04
So it wasn't academia that caused him
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He actually taught in the years leading up to that at Cornell, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:18
He actually taught in the years leading up to that at Cornel...
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Like many other colleges, it became a focal point - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:10
Like many other colleges, it became a focal point
When armed black students took over a building on campus, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:09
When armed black students took over a building on campus,
Blacks had been recruited to Cornell under lower standards - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:13
Blacks had been recruited to Cornell under lower standards
For Sowell, it was an example of the unintended consequences - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
For Sowell, it was an example of the unintended consequences
Tom's tenure at Cornell - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:09
Tom's tenure at Cornell
I think it left a very, very bitter taste in his mouth. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
I think it left a very, very bitter taste in his mouth.
He discovered that many black students at Cornell, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:10
He discovered that many black students at Cornell,
And that's when he first came up with the idea - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
And that's when he first came up with the idea
That is, black students who would do very well - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:13
That is, black students who would do very well
The average black student at MIT - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
The average black student at MIT
But he is in the top 90% of all American students in math. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
But he is in the top 90% of all American students in math.
Something like 1/4 of all the black students going to MIT - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
Something like 1/4 of all the black students going to MIT
You're talking about a pool of people - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:08
You're talking about a pool of people
Tom had moved to UCLA - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:11
Tom had moved to UCLA
I was sitting in my office at UCLA one day - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:11
I was sitting in my office at UCLA one day