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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Episode 100: The Sowell of Economics

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

For the 100th (?) episode of The Remnant, Thomas Sowell, who needs no introduction, joins Jonah for a long conversation on discrimination, inequality, the uses and misuses of economics (all subjects covered in the new edition of Discrimination and Disparities, out now), and more. Show Notes: DonorsTrust.org/Dingo Thomas Sowell’s Hoover Institution page Conflict of Visions … Continue reading Episode 100: The Sowell of Economics→

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0:00.0

Greetings dear listeners.

0:26.3

This is a very exciting 100th episode of the Remnant Podcast.

0:32.2

I'm Jonah Goldberg.

0:35.4

This week's episode is sponsored by Donors Trust, the smart and tax-friendly way to simplify

0:41.3

your charitable giving without compromising your values.

0:45.3

So listeners, this is the 100th episode of the Remnant Podcast and we wanted to do something

0:52.0

very special and while we normally try not to do guests outside of the studio,

0:56.2

this was a special case.

0:58.2

Our guest today is one of my true legitimate intellectual heroes.

1:05.2

I could list you all of his books but I'll just simply say that when I'm often asked what

1:10.5

books does every conservative have to read?

1:15.7

Professor Thomas Sol's conflict of visions, I think, is canonical on the right and needs

1:22.9

to be read by pretty much everybody.

1:25.0

I'm a huge fan of many of his books but he has been a load star of mine for many years.

1:33.8

Dr. Sol, welcome to the podcast.

1:36.4

Good to be with you.

1:38.6

So one of the things that I was just reading, I've been reading the latest edition which

1:46.0

is why you're here of discrimination and disparities and one of the things that comes across

1:52.3

in a lot of your writing but particularly in this, it's almost as if you're a visitor

1:57.1

from Mars and what I mean by that is that you come to a lot of social questions with no

2:04.5

preconceived notions.

2:06.3

You do not sort of buy in to the conventional wisdom on the right or the left about the

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