Recorded on September 7, 2023
Thomas Sowell, age 93, is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution. With his usual fierceness and feistiness intact, Dr. Sowell returns to Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson for a second round of discussion on his latest book (he’s published over 40 titles over his career), Social Justice Fallacies. In this installment, Dr. Sowell discusses in great detail the recent Supreme Court decision on affirmative action, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, and his decades-long friendship with Justice Clarence Thomas. Dr. Sowell also reacts to some YouTube videos of young people reacting to him.
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The sad thing how many smart and rational people don't know about that and continue pushing leftist agenda, just because they were never exposed to this knowledge and didn't have a chance to just analyze facts.
Lord knows we don't deserve it, but can you imagine if he gave us The Thomas Sowell Podcast every week? Talk about required listening.
Excelent!
We should hang his portraits in the White House and Congress. I hope you live for at least 200 years, sir.
When I hear a great professor speak, I grab a pencil and paper. When I hear Prof. Sowell speak, I want to grab a stone and chisel. Carve it in stone. Let people read and re-read Sowell. His voice is the sound of lucidity and words are the words of logic. Conflict of Visions changed everything for me and he's still going strong. What a thinker. What a man.
Thomas Sowell, simply the best.
My husband of 53 years knows I am waiting for him to die so I can drive down to Thomas Sowell’s and propose marriage! 😉 Love this man for years!
I hope and pray that literally everyone in the near future recognize how great Dr. Thomas Sowell is. I put this man on the same level with any of history’s great thinkers.
look at the difference between this highly intelligent 93 year old man, carrying on with an intellectual conversation for 30 minutes, and the decrepit politicians running the country, who cant even speak for 30 seconds without freezing or losing their way.
I hope TS does an interview with Dr. Jordan Peterson
Justice Jackson can’t be that smart – if she doesn’t know what a woman is …
It may be a fallacy but many politicians might hold that increasing minimum wages from time to time controls against social upheaval.
My hero
19:29 It's not the lack of evidence that's the issue. Evidence is for politicians. The issue is the lack of anything resembling a legal constitutional explanation for her position.
Thomas what a man
Notice how Jackson’s response has no facts.
Love this man!
Not only is this wonderful man correct that raising minimum wage has helped no one. Another side effect is companies are no longer willing to train new employees on how the companies prefer the jobs they have available to be done in an efficient manner without the loss of quality. This causes in turn the side effects of tension, high stress, and a decrease in moral. Which leads to a reduction in both productivity and quality. Also a lack of opportunities for those trying to become productive members of society. I absolutely love Thomas Sowell's perspectives and his determination to do what he can to achieve a positive effect to a struggling world.
I feel blessed by being able to hear this Dr. Sowell's wisdom on issues during the time we live in—with words that are timeless and will no doubt live on to generations to come.
Looks like I have another Thomas Sowell book to get!
I love Thomas Sowell and have shared his wisdom through his writings to many grateful people. Thank you, Dr. Sowell.
Thomas Sowell is our national treasure and our bright and shining moment. Clarity and the pursuit of truth and, therefore, happiness resides within him. God bless him and the United States of America and for the sake of our future may his light never be extinguished.
No more is needed as Armageddon is coming for the final social justice.
I have to say, 40 books isbonkers, in my 50 years i've written 1 poem and possibly 100 songs. love this channel – ty for educating others. condy, mc masters and kotkin are sublime !
I find Peter’s treatment of the closing of this interview quite moving… he seems to almost become emotional realizing suddenly he’s lucky to be able to interview TS once again, but also realizing he may not have twang more tries. 🙁
All hail professor Sowell.
Tom being more brilliant than every thinker today, at 93 yo.
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“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination. “ – Thomas Sowell
It's quite moving listen to you Mr. Tomas Sowell, defend with such passion the ideals of equality under the law, greetings from Chile
As a young man from Malaysia, I would like to say thank you to Mr Thomas Sowell. If not for his book, Basic Economics, I would not have the rational mindset and grow as much as I am right now.
Thank you with all my heart. May God bless you, Mr Sowell, you truly are a great man in my eyes.