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Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World

On the other hand,you're cutting down the amount of light

On the other hand,
you're cutting down the amount of light

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On the other hand, you're cutting down
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the amount of light.
Duration
4 seconds
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29
Timestamp in Movie
00:21:40
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.
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
[ music ] - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:17
[ music ]
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
And so at least Tom Sowell said he came out understanding - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
And so at least Tom Sowell said he came out understanding
I was still a Marxist after taking Milton Friedman's course. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
I was still a Marxist after taking Milton Friedman's co...
But I -- Did you -- - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:08
But I -- Did you --