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Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World

I was now beginningto understand things that I hadn't understood before

[ music ] I was now beginning
to understand things that I hadn't understood before

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I was now beginning to understand things
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that I hadn't understood before.
Duration
6 seconds
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24
Timestamp in Movie
00:25:52
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.
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He actually taught in the years leading up to that at Cornell, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:18
He actually taught in the years leading up to that at Cornel...
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Like many other colleges, it became a focal point - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:10
Like many other colleges, it became a focal point
When armed black students took over a building on campus, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:09
When armed black students took over a building on campus,
Blacks had been recruited to Cornell under lower standards - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:13
Blacks had been recruited to Cornell under lower standards
For Sowell, it was an example of the unintended consequences - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
For Sowell, it was an example of the unintended consequences
Tom's tenure at Cornell - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:09
Tom's tenure at Cornell
I think it left a very, very bitter taste in his mouth. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
I think it left a very, very bitter taste in his mouth.
He discovered that many black students at Cornell, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:10
He discovered that many black students at Cornell,
And that's when he first came up with the idea - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
And that's when he first came up with the idea
That is, black students who would do very well - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:13
That is, black students who would do very well
The average black student at MIT - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
The average black student at MIT
But he is in the top 90% of all American students in math. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
But he is in the top 90% of all American students in math.
Something like 1/4 of all the black students going to MIT - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
Something like 1/4 of all the black students going to MIT
You're talking about a pool of people - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:08
You're talking about a pool of people
Tom had moved to UCLA - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:11
Tom had moved to UCLA
I was sitting in my office at UCLA one day - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:11
I was sitting in my office at UCLA one day
I heard all of this. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
I heard all of this.
And one of them said, "Well, how you doing, brother?" - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
And one of them said, "Well, how you doing, brother?&qu...