Hard to believe Sowell is now 86 years old. Sad that I have only discovered him in the past few years. Why do people like this get relegated to relative obscurity when phony intellectuals get elevated to prominence?
It's a problem that alvarism.com faces as well. In my experience - the market for rational evaluation of topics is small. Consider the latest article on Alvarism about nonprofits. Emotive presentations that Bertrand Russell spoke of in "The Impact of Science on Society" sell - just look at the checkout lane at the grocery store, and most news shows. In the small market of intellectual exchange there are competing interests. The phony intellectuals you note serve the interests of their promoters. Reasonable people need to find each other and help to create a culture of civility, knowledge, and wisdom. One task of Alvarism is to bring those people together.
Exactly that, facts! Basing arguments on emotion and not logic is an easy way to spread propaganda and enforce indoctrination of a certain ideology, take many arguments made for socialism/communism?
I totally agree with the tone of your comment, but I’d say there isn’t a lack of emotion on Sowell’s part, just emotional motivations completely tethered to empirical data. He references nostalgic topics frequently and discusses people in a deeply caring way. I only discovered him recently and I’m blown away by his body of work.
It breaks my heart that I didn't know about Mr. Sowell until the last few years.... He is a National Treasure. It is compounded by the knowledge of his age and realizing this treasure will only be around for so many more years....
Yeah, I remember how sad it was the day Milton Friedman died. This will be the same. At least he keeps publishing even now instead of retiring like he said he wanted too in this video 11 years ago :)
he's an international treasure! i discovered him myself just like you and i'm from israel. this is one of the smartest people i ever listened to. also, he didn't retire, he retired from wtiting his weekly newspaper columns. totally worth the 19.95$ for a copy of this. but youtube gives it away for free so few people know how valueable this information is.
I think that's great your willing to be honest about your desires, I hope you and your group are seeking help. Don't be afraid to turn your self in if you act on any of your inclinations it the right thing to do.
So very true. And to take that thought a little further, every young black person in America should have a poster of Thomas Sowell on their wall instead of or along side: Kobi, Shaq, Jayz, Beyonce, Tupac, etc. His is a role model that any young person should aspire to emulate, regardless of color. I made that statement because I think that young blacks are more in need of such role models.
In every way possible because he's a wise and original thinker, not merely a conventional ( leftist ) intellectual; economics ( jobs, opportunities to create or recover wealth); world & domestic security (unlike O and H, he has no special affection for The Brotherhood) and race relations - he is a genuine unifier and a leader who promotes the dignity of individual responsibility for American Blacks (rather than cynical race-baiter getting the Black turnout up for Hillary & who perpetuates the old alibi for Black failure) I think that's enough to be going on with. What a shame it wasn't to be and Sowell's now too old. What a waste of a decade.
Of course he can be wrong. He's a human. Now Eperience? Qualifications? Ha :) A President needs to love his country & the West. Temperament & character counts for a lot. Instincts and judgement matter. Some people have poor instincts character and judgement. As we've recently seen.
Sowell's one of these rare people who is so brutally intellectually honest/brave that it makes many people he comes in contact with reevaluate themselves as a person. We need more people to hold a mirror of reality up to them as we drift further and further away from it.
he turned 90 just recently and it makes me mad to have discovered this gracious man that late in my life. Same thing happened to me with Hitchens. Thanks for the upload
Being in his upper 80s, I hope this man can pump out as much material as possible. He is needed now more than ever. It's a shame he doesn't get the recognition he deserves - and he deserves presidential-like recognition.
Sowell seems to be a great man. One of the most interesting intellectuals I have ever come across in video form. I think it's sad that I haven't heard about him until recently. I've taken multiple classes in political science and never once was he mentioned. This guy should be taught in universities across the country. Truly he is one of the most intelligent and influential intellectuals of the last forty years. I believe history will see him as such.
How I wish Dr. Sowell's voice had been broadcast in the main stream. I've only just discovered him and I think he is brilliant. Why has he been hidden?
It breaks my heart that this man isn’t THE standard textbook. That so few know who he is, travesty. The breadth of his knowledge, his skill in humble delivery of enlightening facts continues to settle the opinions on as many topics as he touches on.
I love this guy I remember being incensed by the southern system and explaining in no uncertain terms to my dad white guilt about slavery he laughed and reminded me our family had arrived in America in 1956 and since we're of Irish descent when the slaves arrived in Barbados and the Bahamas and America we were there to greet them
look at those computers. I remember my first computer, a gateway with a 20 gig hard drive. Going through the first stages of puberty, loading one line of a photo at a time.. the definition of suspense
Thomas Sowell is one of the wisest men on earth, I like what he has to say about intellectuals and how they know everything, like the global warmists, and others. I guess you could include Marxism.
You mean like how they need a crisis or other catalyst to force their ideas on the masses. It makes so much sense that I feel like I've always known it, but never thought about it.
Was shocked to hear he was an orphan and intrigued to know how that seems to have quite little affect on him. I've suspected a link between unconventional family circumstances and brilliant thinking, maybe due to the unconventional (detached?) perspective.
When I discovered him 15 years ago, I was already pretty much on way to being a conservative, thanks to influences from Rush Limbaugh and my dad. Reading Thomas Sowell was what pushed me over the edge and made me supremely confident in my beliefs. Then shortly after that I discovered Dennis Prager and it became easier to articulate my beliefs
"A belief which has matured to a firm conviction, that in the final analysis love is the greatest force on earth and is far more enduring than hatred;” (p.321, Masters of Deceit; J.Edgar Hoover; Holt; 1958)
I have to wonder if this was him saying it was a good idea or simply a forgone conclusion given the political reality of 9/11 and the real debate is staying in or getting out. If you were in Bush's position, it would have been total political suicide to not have heads roll, especially given the pre-existing obligations the US has to be the world's policeman making an intervention pretty much inevitable. Judging Bush's actions is always going to be hard since we're all judging this after the fact when the conclusions are obvious now. The term I heard popularized was "Monday Night Quarterbacking". The best way I can put it is that going in was a bad idea looking back, but pulling out when we did was arguably even worse, since an intervention still had a prospect of being salvageable and an argument can be easily made that the political reality of the situation would force anyone's hand given the circumstances leading up to the intervention. In an ideal world, the interventions wouldn't exist, but a consistent theme with Sowell's various interviews is that the ideal world simply doesn't exist.
swell guy yeah but obama did preside over the final 2 years of that war and we were doing pretty well until obama gave that speech in 2009 basically saying were gonna leave in 6 months anyway whether we eliminate the threat or not, essentially telling the terrorists just last 6 more months and then youll rule. and thats what happened. ISIS was forming by 2012. and Obama knew about it but if word got out he botched the Iraq War pullout that wouldve hurt his poll numbers among moderates which i think he won in 2012. ill go look and edit it
I still think Iraq made sense. In the wake of 9-11, Saddam Hussein needed to fully and completely comply with his treaty. I do not know why he did not. Maybe appearances were important for sustaining his power. But regardless, he needed to go. It was a hard, very costly decision, but the right one.
Hate is a tool to fuel issues that arise in crime it is never really the main fact that drives a crime. But it is a factor that can push it over the edge. It's like lighter fluid on a fire the Wood is the real source of the issue.
Chad Solberg , Walter Williams (same generation), maybe some of Rand Paul, especially Ben Carson, Eric July (Backwordz), the guy from Canada's "Rebel"...forgot his name at the moment. Maybe even someone like Mia Love, though she's a politician and not an economics expert.
Pausing at 22:30: Ha! I adore his candidness. A government appointment probably would've just jaded him. Besides, we needed him out here telling it like he sees it. Interesting thoughts shared about Ford pardoning Nixon. I don't doubt if Nixon had been made to serve a little jail time that Clinton (and now others) might've shaped up on down the line.
"Scholars have long known of the slave raids on Europe. But American historian Robert Davis has calculated that the total number captured - although small compared with the 12 million Africans shipped to the Americas in later years - was far higher than previously recognized."
Tamir Rice was around 4yrs old when this interview was aired, Eric Gardner Walter Scott and others the arrest of Sandra Bland and countless other cases should be second guessed.
It's astonishing and sad that people accuse Dr. Sowell of lacking compassion because he values factual information over emotional arguments. As Jesus said in Mark 6:4: "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house.”
I want Ben Shapiro to be president in 2020, and I want Tomas Sowell (if he is still alive, God willing, at the time) to be his Secretary of Urban Development.
He won't do it sadly to this day he still refuses to be in politics since he believes it would be no benefit to him or the people he would work with , since he refuses to compromise. but hey I agree I would love to see him behind someone in office.
Well, I want him in government specifically because he doesn't want to be, especially because I know he will disassemble all the government policies and institutions which are responsible for so many bad things.
Not surprised that he is an orphan. An adopting couple will usually at least try to give a child the love and upbringing that an otherwise single parent, or a deadbeat couple may not be suited for, or not have the desire for.
Hard to believe Sowell is now 86 years old. Sad that I have only discovered him in the past few years. Why do people like this get relegated to relative obscurity when phony intellectuals get elevated to prominence?
It's a problem that alvarism.com faces as well. In my experience - the market for rational evaluation of topics is small. Consider the latest article on Alvarism about nonprofits. Emotive presentations that Bertrand Russell spoke of in "The Impact of Science on Society" sell - just look at the checkout lane at the grocery store, and most news shows. In the small market of intellectual exchange there are competing interests. The phony intellectuals you note serve the interests of their promoters. Reasonable people need to find each other and help to create a culture of civility, knowledge, and wisdom. One task of Alvarism is to bring those people together.
Typical conservatives are right, liberals wrong.
Yet Kanye West and Al Sharpton are almost never off the air. Time to question who controls the airwaves and what their agenda is.
Is that a statement or an accusation, Real World?
It's a loaded question.
You learn more from Thomas Sowell by accident than anywhere else by design.
Very well put!
So true hahaha
That is a tremendously apt description of Dr. Sowell. One of the greatest minds America has ever produced.
Gordon Stewart you are so right
Meh
I could listen to this man 24x7. He speaks/talks about facts... not emotions.
Exactly that, facts! Basing arguments on emotion and not logic is an easy way to spread propaganda and enforce indoctrination of a certain ideology, take many arguments made for socialism/communism?
Marc-Andre Perron the funny thing is socialism and communism also have shitty moral arguments
I totally agree with the tone of your comment, but I’d say there isn’t a lack of emotion on Sowell’s part, just emotional motivations completely tethered to empirical data. He references nostalgic topics frequently and discusses people in a deeply caring way. I only discovered him recently and I’m blown away by his body of work.
It breaks my heart that I didn't know about Mr. Sowell until the last few years.... He is a National Treasure. It is compounded by the knowledge of his age and realizing this treasure will only be around for so many more years....
Yeah, I remember how sad it was the day Milton Friedman died. This will be the same. At least he keeps publishing even now instead of retiring like he said he wanted too in this video 11 years ago :)
Earthworm Jim he just retired :(
Jacabo Blanco yeah, at least we can hope he get a long and good retirement. He surely deserves it.
he's an international treasure! i discovered him myself just like you and i'm from israel. this is one of the smartest people i ever listened to. also, he didn't retire, he retired from wtiting his weekly newspaper columns.
totally worth the 19.95$ for a copy of this. but youtube gives it away for free so few people know how valueable this information is.
how come i didnt learn about this man in history class. He is the GOAT
I have tons of Dr. Thomas Sowell's Books, and I thank him.
Have you read them, though?
Byenia just finished Wealth Poverty and Politics . OK I lied. I'm on page 400. lol. this book is AMAZING.
We need more people like Sowell.
I think that's great your willing to be honest about your desires, I hope you and your group are seeking help. Don't be afraid to turn your self in if you act on any of your inclinations it the right thing to do.
So very true. And to take that thought a little further, every young black person in America should have a poster of Thomas Sowell on their wall instead of or along side: Kobi, Shaq, Jayz, Beyonce, Tupac, etc. His is a role model that any young person should aspire to emulate, regardless of color. I made that statement because I think that young blacks are more in need of such role models.
Imagine. How America would be today after 8 years of President Sowell ? ...
In every way possible because he's a wise and original thinker, not merely a conventional ( leftist ) intellectual; economics ( jobs, opportunities to create or recover wealth); world & domestic security (unlike O and H, he has no special affection for The Brotherhood) and race relations - he is a genuine unifier and a leader who promotes the dignity of individual responsibility for American Blacks (rather than cynical race-baiter getting the Black turnout up for Hillary & who perpetuates the old alibi for Black failure) I think that's enough to be going on with. What a shame it wasn't to be and Sowell's now too old. What a waste of a decade.
Of course he can be wrong. He's a human. Now Eperience? Qualifications? Ha :)
A President needs to love his country & the West. Temperament & character counts for a lot. Instincts and judgement matter. Some people have poor instincts character and judgement. As we've recently seen.
***** And sure, he's now too old- but a better deal than we'll be getting, even at this late stage.
The sad truth is the best politicians are those with no desire to ever get near politics. Saying what you really think has never gotten any votes.
It'd be a better an more prosperous place.
Sowell's one of these rare people who is so brutally intellectually honest/brave that it makes many people he comes in contact with reevaluate themselves as a person. We need more people to hold a mirror of reality up to them as we drift further and further away from it.
vryc he has literally changed me for life. in 2 books. he is my favorite author now.
@@JacaboBlanco if you're still on here, which books were they? I'd love to know.
Had no idea before now that Dr. Sowell was an orphan. And yet he did so well for himself regardless. That's amazing.
The people who took care of him are also amazing.
@@dericksuapaia his grandparents
he turned 90 just recently and it makes me mad to have discovered this gracious man that late in my life.
Same thing happened to me with Hitchens.
Thanks for the upload
HE turned 90... not you. Dumb@s@
Thomas Sowell is one of the great American minds.
Had no idea Sowell almost got into politics. He could of done a lot of good, but I don't blame him for backing out.
I am so excited to stumble upon Thomas Sowell.
Being in his upper 80s, I hope this man can pump out as much material as possible. He is needed now more than ever. It's a shame he doesn't get the recognition he deserves - and he deserves presidential-like recognition.
I love this man. He is so honest and authentic; he really tells it like it is.
This man is impressive! I'm surprised I haven't heard about about him until now.
Sowell seems to be a great man. One of the most interesting intellectuals I have ever come across in video form. I think it's sad that I haven't heard about him until recently. I've taken multiple classes in political science and never once was he mentioned. This guy should be taught in universities across the country. Truly he is one of the most intelligent and influential intellectuals of the last forty years. I believe history will see him as such.
This guy is not changing how i see things... He is changing how I think about things!
This man is truly brilliant.
I like Sowell's definition of intellectuals.
It's Hayek's, not Sowell's.
He contradicts himself.. He attacks intellectuals, yet uses his own intellectual ideas to articulate his own views...
@Independent Your trying to say I already qualify to become a conservative? Im honored, but no thanks..lol
Ive literally only just discovered this man, he should be an intellectual legend by now.
I could listen to this man all day. Brilliant and wise.
How I wish Dr. Sowell's voice had been broadcast in the main stream. I've only just discovered him and I think he is brilliant. Why has he been hidden?
Holy shit his definition describes exactly someone I'm working with now who's driving me nuts!
It breaks my heart that this man isn’t THE standard textbook. That so few know who he is, travesty. The breadth of his knowledge, his skill in humble delivery of enlightening facts continues to settle the opinions on as many topics as he touches on.
An egotistical maniac are the ones who goes in politics. Rarely, does a person who care about the populous run.
Thomas Sowell 90 last year and published another book. Truly one of the great contemporary American philosophers.
Authentic and to the point! He does not waste words like a great tailor does not waste cloth.
I knew this guy was a legend back in the late 1980s. I got my introduction to him through Tony Brown's Journal ( another legend for the record)
GOD BLESS DOCTOR SOWELL. FANTASTIC BOOK!!!!
I love this guy I remember being incensed by the southern system and explaining in no uncertain terms to my dad white guilt about slavery he laughed and reminded me our family had arrived in America in 1956 and since we're of Irish descent when the slaves arrived in Barbados and the Bahamas and America we were there to greet them
God he's so sharp
T Stanton , perhaps the sharpest I've ever read or heard of. He's getting pretty old now, but still insanely brilliant.
This man is a living legend
Smartest man in my lifetime. My dad introduced me to him.
As Dennis Prager says, if he were a liberal he would be a household name. The male Maya Angelo.
Thomas Sowell recently turned 90... I think. Today is 4 July 2020. I believe Mister Sowell is probably the wisest man alive today.
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Wow!! What an incredible thinker!!!
Love the dry monitors!!!
look at those computers. I remember my first computer, a gateway with a 20 gig hard drive. Going through the first stages of puberty, loading one line of a photo at a time.. the definition of suspense
wow, I just learned alot
Gastonia, NC! I was born there! Love some Thomas Sowell logic!
Can’t get enough of Dr. Sowell. A national treasure.
Sowell has an extraordinary mind, and looks not a day over 60, and he was 75 when this was filmed.
One thing I notice about him is that his voice always sounds so youthful.
Thomas Sowell is one of the wisest men on earth, I like what he has to say about intellectuals and how they know everything, like the global warmists, and others. I guess you could include Marxism.
You mean like how they need a crisis or other catalyst to force their ideas on the masses. It makes so much sense that I feel like I've always known it, but never thought about it.
know what else makes sense? boats. boats make sense.
This book needs a reprint!
Reading this book now and it's really eye opening
sowell is so funny he doesnt get enough credit
And his comedic timing is great. Stay blessed.
"I've been called a lot of things"
brilliant fascinating man
Cant do authority without Thomas Sowell .
To be like Thomas Sowell should be the aspiration of every American
Oh how I wish you were in politics. We need more people like you.
wow, it was just in the last few years I've heard of Mr so well. and even more recently started looking into him. I have much catching up to do.
As an aside you know who else doesnt get enough recognition? Brian Lamb. This is what you an actual and REAL journalist.
Amazing Interview !!!!!
Brilliant!
Was shocked to hear he was an orphan and intrigued to know how that seems to have quite little affect on him. I've suspected a link between unconventional family circumstances and brilliant thinking, maybe due to the unconventional (detached?) perspective.
What an amazing man, It would have been an honor to sit in his classes or study under him.
When I discovered him 15 years ago, I was already pretty much on way to being a conservative, thanks to influences from Rush Limbaugh and my dad. Reading Thomas Sowell was what pushed me over the edge and made me supremely confident in my beliefs. Then shortly after that I discovered Dennis Prager and it became easier to articulate my beliefs
Thomas sowell is the man
"A belief which has matured to a firm conviction, that in the final analysis love is the greatest force on earth and is far more enduring than hatred;”
(p.321, Masters of Deceit; J.Edgar Hoover; Holt; 1958)
What an amazing man.
Big fan of Dr Sowell. Found one thing I disagree with him, after all these years. Bush's war in Iraq, was both foolish, and an unmitigated disaster.
bo william , agree. None of us are perfect and Sowell is human, but he also may be the closest humanity gets to being always right or perfect.
I have to wonder if this was him saying it was a good idea or simply a forgone conclusion given the political reality of 9/11 and the real debate is staying in or getting out. If you were in Bush's position, it would have been total political suicide to not have heads roll, especially given the pre-existing obligations the US has to be the world's policeman making an intervention pretty much inevitable. Judging Bush's actions is always going to be hard since we're all judging this after the fact when the conclusions are obvious now. The term I heard popularized was "Monday Night Quarterbacking".
The best way I can put it is that going in was a bad idea looking back, but pulling out when we did was arguably even worse, since an intervention still had a prospect of being salvageable and an argument can be easily made that the political reality of the situation would force anyone's hand given the circumstances leading up to the intervention. In an ideal world, the interventions wouldn't exist, but a consistent theme with Sowell's various interviews is that the ideal world simply doesn't exist.
Yeah I was surprised when he said that. We do have the benefit of hindsight though, this interview was in 2005.
swell guy yeah but obama did preside over the final 2 years of that war and we were doing pretty well until obama gave that speech in 2009 basically saying were gonna leave in 6 months anyway whether we eliminate the threat or not, essentially telling the terrorists just last 6 more months and then youll rule. and thats what happened. ISIS was forming by 2012. and Obama knew about it but if word got out he botched the Iraq War pullout that wouldve hurt his poll numbers among moderates which i think he won in 2012. ill go look and edit it
I still think Iraq made sense. In the wake of 9-11, Saddam Hussein needed to fully and completely comply with his treaty. I do not know why he did not. Maybe appearances were important for sustaining his power. But regardless, he needed to go.
It was a hard, very costly decision, but the right one.
"if the trends continue, its going to be a disaster"
Re Hate Crimes - agree. Aren't ALL crimes caused by hate?
Sometimes it is because of greed
Hatred of poverty.
Hate is a tool to fuel issues that arise in crime it is never really the main fact that drives a crime. But it is a factor that can push it over the edge. It's like lighter fluid on a fire the Wood is the real source of the issue.
"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” (Thomas Jefferson, September 23, 1800)
Thank you for the Jefferson quote!
That's beautiful! 🙏
It's shocking to hear a reporter repeat a quote someone has said and the person just says yes I said that. Not dodging or lying at all
2005?? Why does that look like 1985?
An absolute national treasure.
Great guy, he should be required reading for any black studies class.
You can sum up his whole lifes work in one sentence.
Big government, high taxes and the welfare state are a pile of shit. The End
21:00 Man of integrity.
This presenter needs to be careful -- he's in real danger of winning the most charismatic interviewer award..
The fact that the so-called black community has buried this great man should tell you everything you need to know about that broken culture.
quote at 37:00 is the story of my ENTIRE life!
12:50 HAHAHAHA! "Thirty...Really?"
Finally start talking about the book :37 minutes into the video.
they better release all the musings left on his computer!
.. who are other thinkers, like sowell, that can carry on a similar legacy?
Chad Solberg , Walter Williams (same generation), maybe some of Rand Paul, especially Ben Carson, Eric July (Backwordz), the guy from Canada's "Rebel"...forgot his name at the moment. Maybe even someone like Mia Love, though she's a politician and not an economics expert.
Pausing at 22:30: Ha! I adore his candidness. A government appointment probably would've just jaded him. Besides, we needed him out here telling it like he sees it.
Interesting thoughts shared about Ford pardoning Nixon. I don't doubt if Nixon had been made to serve a little jail time that Clinton (and now others) might've shaped up on down the line.
I just discovered him after Gavin Macginnes quoted him..He's not on the radar screen
so cool
Enlightening as always, was the good doctor! The host? Not so much, in fact, boring.
They should mandatorily be showing this to children in school these days. He was a true free thinker.
Milton and Sowell...the kings of the red pill
here's the link referenced in the conversation townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/
This guy's job is sweet man.
9 minutues in and yeahhhh... *EL CHE VIVE*
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"Scholars have long known of the slave raids on Europe. But American historian Robert Davis has calculated that the total number captured - although small compared with the 12 million Africans shipped to the Americas in later years - was far higher than previously recognized."
What is the Joseph Girdels award? I can’t find anything online.
Joseph goebbels was the nazi minister of propaganda, the "award" was a sarcastic joke
Read "Skin in the Game," by Nassim Taleb, it's just part 2 to this.
I want to marry him.
Me too! He's cute... Whoo!
Tamir Rice was around 4yrs old when this interview was aired, Eric Gardner Walter Scott and others the arrest of Sandra Bland and countless other cases should be second guessed.
if we got a deserter pardoned I think we can give our other soldiers a break.
It's astonishing and sad that people accuse Dr. Sowell of lacking compassion because he values factual information over emotional arguments. As Jesus said in Mark 6:4: "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house.”
I want Ben Shapiro to be president in 2020, and I want Tomas Sowell (if he is still alive, God willing, at the time) to be his Secretary of Urban Development.
He won't do it sadly to this day he still refuses to be in politics since he believes it would be no benefit to him or the people he would work with , since he refuses to compromise. but hey I agree I would love to see him behind someone in office.
Well, I want him in government specifically because he doesn't want to be, especially because I know he will disassemble all the government policies and institutions which are responsible for so many bad things.
Luke 4:24: "Verily I say unto you no prophet is accepted in his own country..."
Not surprised that he is an orphan. An adopting couple will usually at least try to give a child the love and upbringing that an otherwise single parent, or a deadbeat couple may not be suited for, or not have the desire for.
45:00 52:00
Sowell and shapiro.