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Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World

I've spent dozens of hoursinterviewing Tom and hundreds moreselecting stories he's told...

I've spent dozens of hours
interviewing Tom and hundreds more
selecting stories he's told over the years
to others to help us understand
what makes Thomas Sowell unique

Full Transcript

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I've spent dozens of hours interviewing Tom
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and hundreds more selecting stories
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he's told over the years to others
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to help us understand what makes Thomas Sowell unique.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
32
Timestamp in Movie
00:03:59
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.
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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
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,