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Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World

For me, Thomas Sowell is that rarest of species -- and honest intellectual

For me, Thomas Sowell is that rarest of species -- and honest intellectual

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For me, Thomas Sowell
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is that rarest of species --
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and honest intellectual.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
30
Timestamp in Movie
00:03:26
Uploaded
May 10, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography
Production
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.
He's spent a career - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
He's spent a career
He's explored the answers to questions - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
He's explored the answers to questions
He's followed the facts where they lead - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:08
He's followed the facts where they lead
Thomas Sowell fervently stands - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:12
Thomas Sowell fervently stands
I've spent dozens of hours interviewing Tom - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:12
I've spent dozens of hours interviewing Tom
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It's covered everything from economics and history - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
It's covered everything from economics and history
The main thing that he's done, in my opinion, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:08
The main thing that he's done, in my opinion,
Not just economics, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:08
Not just economics,
He will not compromise any of his opinions - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:08
He will not compromise any of his opinions
How do you take the measure of a man, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:11
How do you take the measure of a man,
Do you do it through his deeds or influence? - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
Do you do it through his deeds or influence?
Or by what he says or writes? - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
Or by what he says or writes?
Said it best -- - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:19
Said it best --
You can't argue with Tom, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
You can't argue with Tom,
They're just ignoring what he's written - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
They're just ignoring what he's written
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First, intellectual honesty -- asking the right questions, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:12
First, intellectual honesty -- asking the right questions,
Second, the importance of incentives - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:08
Second, the importance of incentives
Third, the belief that a group's upward mobility - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:08
Third, the belief that a group's upward mobility