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Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World

How do you takethe measure of a man, especially if he's someonewho's impacted our thinking...

How do you take
the measure of a man, especially if he's someone
who's impacted our thinking about politics and economics
for more than half a century?

Full Transcript

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How do you take the measure of a man,
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especially if he's someone who's impacted our thinking
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about politics and economics for more than half a century?
Duration
11 seconds
Views
29
Timestamp in Movie
00:04:47
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.
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
And finally, Sowell has an abiding respect - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:10
And finally, Sowell has an abiding respect
What formed the foundation of a man who would go on - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
What formed the foundation of a man who would go on
That story began - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
That story began
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The Great Depression was just getting underway, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:16
The Great Depression was just getting underway,
Sowell's father died before Tom was born - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:11
Sowell's father died before Tom was born
He was adopted by his great aunt - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
He was adopted by his great aunt
My whole career would not have been possible - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:09
My whole career would not have been possible
I mean, nobody in that family had ever graduated - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
I mean, nobody in that family had ever graduated
But they were interested in education - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
But they were interested in education
Tom was raised by a great aunt and her adult children. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
Tom was raised by a great aunt and her adult children.