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Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World

When I was a young person,I used to like to stay home from schooloccasionally, liked to...

When I was a young person,
I used to like to stay home from school
occasionally, liked to play hooky or pretend
I was sick and stay home

Full Transcript

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When I was a young person, I used to like to
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stay home from school occasionally,
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liked to play hooky or pretend I was sick and stay home.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
30
Timestamp in Movie
00:20:00
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.
But unlike most kids who'd, you know, cut class - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:12
But unlike most kids who'd, you know, cut class
These were very smart people, but Thomas Sowell - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:10
These were very smart people, but Thomas Sowell
When the private sector fails to create jobs - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:10
When the private sector fails to create jobs
I think it is overly broad to say - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
I think it is overly broad to say
I don't remember talking to anyone who's ever - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
I don't remember talking to anyone who's ever
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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