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Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World

I discovered Thomas Sowell like everygood thinker discovers things in the modern-day, on...

I discovered Thomas Sowell like every
good thinker discovers things in the modern-day, on YouTube

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I discovered Thomas Sowell like every good thinker discovers things in the
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modern-day, on YouTube.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
18
Timestamp in Movie
00:42:26
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.
I was watching a Milton Friedman video, and I see Thomas Sowell - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:11
I was watching a Milton Friedman video, and I see Thomas Sow...
And he gave a real rigorous, as rigorous as you could be on TV, but a - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:12
And he gave a real rigorous, as rigorous as you could be on ...
And I just kind of went down the YouTube wormhole with Thomas Sowell, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:11
And I just kind of went down the YouTube wormhole with Thoma...
And I just started to explore him, and the more I explored Thomas Sowell, he - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:15
And I just started to explore him, and the more I explored T...
I come from kind of a punk rock hardcore background, and I had an - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:12
I come from kind of a punk rock hardcore background, and I h...
You don't hear a whole lot of music about, oh, well, if I work really - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:08
You don't hear a whole lot of music about, oh, well, if...
But upon kind of digging into Thomas Sowell’s thought process, I realized - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:16
But upon kind of digging into Thomas Sowell’s thought proces...
I see him as someone who has constantly strived to be consistent. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
I see him as someone who has constantly strived to be consis...
And to those that want to be consistent, you have to study - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:24
And to those that want to be consistent, you have to study
That’s why I think Thomas Sowell is so well-versed and such - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
That’s why I think Thomas Sowell is so well-versed and such...
I grew up in an era when people, particularly blacks, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:12
I grew up in an era when people, particularly blacks,
I don't believe there is a predestined amount - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
I don't believe there is a predestined amount
Gutman has done a study of the black family - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:08
Gutman has done a study of the black family
"Some things are believed - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:19
"Some things are believed
I wrote a book on language, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
I wrote a book on language,
His son was a late talker, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:14
His son was a late talker,
This meshed with my own understanding - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:08
This meshed with my own understanding
So I wrote to Tom saying, "Your intuition about your son - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:10
So I wrote to Tom saying, "Your intuition about your so...
Eventually, his son John not only began to speak, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
Eventually, his son John not only began to speak,
Sowell wrote about this remarkable journey - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:23
Sowell wrote about this remarkable journey