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Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World

Tom once commented to methat to be a photographer, you have to master trade-offs

[ music ] Tom once commented to me
that to be a photographer, you have to master trade-offs

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Tom once commented to me that to be a photographer,
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you have to master trade-offs.
Duration
10 seconds
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20
Timestamp in Movie
00:21:15
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.
All of the little adjustments that you fiddle with - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
All of the little adjustments that you fiddle with
If you close down the diaphragm, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:09
If you close down the diaphragm,
On the other hand, you're cutting down - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:04
On the other hand, you're cutting down
And a theme in Tom's work on society - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
And a theme in Tom's work on society
And Tom often loses patience at people with sweeping visions. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
And Tom often loses patience at people with sweeping visions...
And Tom points out in his political writings - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
And Tom points out in his political writings
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Here is where some of the most influential - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
Here is where some of the most influential
It's called The Chicago School of Economics. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:04
It's called The Chicago School of Economics.
And it's where Tom would be mentored by intellectual giants - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:13
And it's where Tom would be mentored by intellectual gi...
I was a graduate student here from 1960 to '64. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
I was a graduate student here from 1960 to '64.
The thing I learned as a graduate student - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:19
The thing I learned as a graduate student
At Chicago, if it was true, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
At Chicago, if it was true,
It was true because you had the evidence, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:04
It was true because you had the evidence,
They explored the specific ways - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
They explored the specific ways
The idea, you know, that people are rational on the whole - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:10
The idea, you know, that people are rational on the whole
[ Students chattering ] - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:14
[ Students chattering ]
In fact, he talks more positively about his experience - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:09
In fact, he talks more positively about his experience
Tom was a Marxist when he took a course - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
Tom was a Marxist when he took a course
But what he appreciated was that - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:12
But what he appreciated was that