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Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World

One of the thingsthat I found out that was sort of amazing aboutyour history, you briefly...

One of the things
that I found out that was sort of amazing about
your history, you briefly mentioned it
right before we started; you were a Marxist at one time in your life

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One of the things that I found out that was
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sort of amazing about your history,
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you briefly mentioned it right before we started;
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you were a Marxist
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at one time in your life.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
28
Timestamp in Movie
00:16:39
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.
Most people will find this hard to believe, but it is true. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:04
Most people will find this hard to believe, but it is true.
Most of the leading conservative thinkers of our time - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:08
Most of the leading conservative thinkers of our time
You've got a couple like Bill Buckley and George Will. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
You've got a couple like Bill Buckley and George Will.
Ronald Reagan was so far left, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
Ronald Reagan was so far left,
Do you remember sort of what you were thinking, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
Do you remember sort of what you were thinking,
Yes. I mean, there was no alternative being discussed. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
Yes. I mean, there was no alternative being discussed.
I treated my interview with him as Thomas Sowell 101. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:04
I treated my interview with him as Thomas Sowell 101.
I wanted it to be for the new generation of young people - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
I wanted it to be for the new generation of young people
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It would go all the way up Fifth Avenue - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
It would go all the way up Fifth Avenue
And then, as I came across this long viaduct - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:13
And then, as I came across this long viaduct
And nothing in the schools or most of the books - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:08
And nothing in the schools or most of the books
There's an absolutely beautiful moment - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
There's an absolutely beautiful moment
So then what was your wake-up to what was wrong - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:04
So then what was your wake-up to what was wrong
I mean, I knew the second he did it, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
I mean, I knew the second he did it,
And it gets to, what does this man care about most? - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
And it gets to, what does this man care about most?
How he wants the world to be? Or how is the world as it is? - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
How he wants the world to be? Or how is the world as it is?
Because that's what he's saying, "I care about facts." - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:10
Because that's what he's saying, "I care abou...
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