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Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World

It gave him the impetus to come to the New World,New York City, where there wasless...

[ music ] It gave him the impetus to come to the New World,
New York City, where there was
less restriction, there was less,
you know, regulation

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It gave him the impetus
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to come to the New World, New York City,
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where there was less restriction,
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there was less, you know, regulation.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
00:50:36
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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They created an instrument that within 10 years, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:10
They created an instrument that within 10 years,
Very often people talk - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:10
Very often people talk
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"It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:12
"It's amazing how much panic one honest man can sp...
"The Thomas Sowell Reader," 2011. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
"The Thomas Sowell Reader," 2011.
"Intellectuals and Race," 2013. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:04
"Intellectuals and Race," 2013.
A new edition of your classic work - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
A new edition of your classic work
"Wealth, Poverty and Politics," 2015. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
"Wealth, Poverty and Politics," 2015.
And now, 2018, "Discrimination and Disparities." - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
And now, 2018, "Discrimination and Disparities."
I just listed the books you've published - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
I just listed the books you've published
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While many found Sowell's empirically based arguments - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:10
While many found Sowell's empirically based arguments
You once told me that Tom's not interested - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
You once told me that Tom's not interested
He's interested in telling people what the data show. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:04
He's interested in telling people what the data show.
What the data shows, and he is counter -- - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:20
What the data shows, and he is counter --
And then the results tend to bother people - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
And then the results tend to bother people
And then, as an African-American intellectual, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:12
And then, as an African-American intellectual,
He doesn't make friends or enemies - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:08
He doesn't make friends or enemies
On December 27, 2016, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
On December 27, 2016,