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Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World

It's been 40 yearssince the show aired, and Thomas Sowell's writingscontinue to illuminate

It's been 40 years
since the show aired, and Thomas Sowell's writings
continue to illuminate

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It's been 40 years since the show aired,
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and Thomas Sowell's writings continue to illuminate.
Duration
7 seconds
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27
Timestamp in Movie
00:00:24
Uploaded
May 10, 2025
Genres
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.
Whether the topic is race, crime, immigration, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:08
Whether the topic is race, crime, immigration,
Racists may prefer one race to another, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
Racists may prefer one race to another,
He's a sociologist who has written books - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
He's a sociologist who has written books
He is America's greatest contemporary living philosopher. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
He is America's greatest contemporary living philosophe...
For more than two decades, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
For more than two decades,
His story is both fascinating and illuminating. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
His story is both fascinating and illuminating.
Tom makes a very, very good point that general principles - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:08
Tom makes a very, very good point that general principles
Tom is fearless not just in advancing unpopular opinions, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:10
Tom is fearless not just in advancing unpopular opinions,
Tom Sowell is known for his views - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
Tom Sowell is known for his views
But I've also discovered some lesser-known - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:14
But I've also discovered some lesser-known
Over the next hour, we'll examine the life and career - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:15
Over the next hour, we'll examine the life and career
You were a Marxist at one time in your life. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:04
You were a Marxist at one time in your life.
What was your wake-up to what was wrong - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:04
What was your wake-up to what was wrong
You're about to meet one of the greatest minds - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
You're about to meet one of the greatest minds
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I took a summer job in the government, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
I took a summer job in the government,
And it was seeing the government from the inside - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
And it was seeing the government from the inside
The vision of the left, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:08
The vision of the left,
The only reason for not believing in it - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
The only reason for not believing in it