Consequences Matter: Thomas Sowell on “Social Justice Fallacies” | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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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 to discuss his latest book (he’s published over 40 titles over his career), Social Justice Fallacies.

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0:00.0	Two events in the life of today's guest.
0:03.0	He just turned 93, and he just published his latest book,
0:07.5	Thomas Sol, on Uncommon Knowledge Now.
0:21.0	Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, I'm Peter Robinson.
0:24.0	After growing up in Harlem, Thomas Sol served in the United States Marine Corps,
0:28.5	then received an undergraduate degree from Harvard, a master's degree from Columbia,
0:33.5	a doctorate from the University of Chicago.
0:36.5	After teaching at universities that included Cornell Brandeis and UCLA,
0:41.5	Dr. Sol became a fellow at the Hoover Institution in 1977.
0:46.5	Thomas Sol is the author of some 40 books, including his newest volume,
0:52.5	Social Justice Fallacies.
0:54.5	And this past spring, he turned 93.
0:58.5	Tom, welcome back to Uncommon Knowledge.
1:00.5	Oh, good being here.
1:01.5	You know, I can't help thinking, reading your background.
1:04.5	If only you'd been a little bit more industrious.
1:07.5	You might have been able to make a name for yourself.
1:10.5	Social Justice.
1:13.5	Dr. Martin Luther King in 1963, quote,
1:16.5	I have a dream.
1:20.5	My poor little children,
1:24.5	one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
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