His fans include millions of viewers on YouTube,

and at least one justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Thomas Sol on Uncommon Knowledge Now.

Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, I'm Peter Robinson.

After growing up in Harlem, Thomas Sol served in the United States Marine Corps,

then earned an undergraduate degree from Harvard, a master's degree from Columbia,

and a doctorate from the University of Chicago.

Now a fellow at the Hoover Institution, Thomas Sol has written some 40 books,

including his most recent book, Social Justice Fallacies, and lived 93 years.

On the last episode of Uncommon Knowledge, Dr. Sol and I discussed this book, Social Justice

Fallacies. Today we'll be discussing a few of Dr. Sol's admirers and an issue that is very much

in the news. Tom, welcome back. Good to be read. A affirmative action. This past July,

the Supreme Court handed down a decision in students for fair admissions versus Harvard.

Although the court had permitted race-based university admissions ever since the 1978

hockey case, now, this past July, the court called such a affirmative action

unconstitutional, Chief Justice John Roberts. The Harvard and University of North Carolina

admissions programs cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the equal protection clause,

close quote. And Tom Sol responded how when you read that news.

I was glad that they said what they did. I will wait and see how it will be applied.

I was glad when I read the original hockey decision because it said that we can't have quotas

and so forth. But in there somewhere there was a little opening and it said that while you can

do this and you can do that, which turns out to mean you can't have quotas if you call them quotas.

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