Top 5 of 2021 Day 3: New Look at Thomas Sowell, 'Great Black Intellectual' Ignored by Left (Repeat)
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🗓️ 29 December 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Top 5 of 2021 Day 3: During this Christmas season, we're sharing some of our favorite interviews of the year to allow our team to take time off for the holidays.
Thomas Sowell is considered by many to be one of the most influential and brilliant minds of the past half-century. He is most famous for his work as an economist, but is also a bestselling author, syndicated columnist, historian, and academic.
Yet he hasn’t received much recognition. “When people talk about the great black intellectuals today, you hear names like Henry Louis Gates at Harvard or Cornel West … or today you hear Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ibram X. Kendi,” says Jason Riley, a journalist, scholar, and member of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board.
“But in my view, Tom has written circles around those guys and is much broader in subjects that he’s covered as well as much deeper and his analysis is much more rigorous than those guys’,” Riley says.
A new documentary, “Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World,” tells the story of Sowell’s life and how his logic and intellect have impacted society.
Riley, who narrates the film, joins the show to discuss the documentary and the personal impact Sowell has had on his own life.
You can watch the full-length documentary here or by visiting SowellFilm.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Wednesday, December 29th. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Doug Blair. |
| 0:11.2 | And I'm Virginia Allen. |
| 0:12.9 | Thomas Sol is considered by many to be one of the most brilliant minds of the past half |
| 0:18.2 | century, both as a scholar and an economist. |
| 0:22.1 | The recent documentary Thomas Sol, Common Sense in a senseless world, dives deep into the |
| 0:27.5 | life and influence of Thomas Sol. |
| 0:30.1 | Today, I'm excited to share my conversation with Jason Riley, a journalist, scholar, and |
| 0:35.6 | member of the Wall Street Journal's editorial board, Riley narrated Sol's documentary |
| 0:40.8 | and has spent quite some time having conversations with Sol. |
| 0:45.2 | Riley joins the show today to share stories of Sol and discuss his influence on America. |
| 0:50.4 | Today, we continue our best of 2021 podcast series, so we hope you enjoy this conversation |
| 0:56.0 | with Jason Riley. |
| 1:04.0 | Many consider Thomas Sol to be one of the greatest minds of our day. |
| 1:09.2 | Sol is most well known for his groundbreaking work as an economist, but is also a best-selling |
| 1:14.8 | author, a photographer, syndicated columnist, historian, and academic. |
| 1:20.1 | He is a man in pursuit of truth, and when he finds it, he stands by it. |
| 1:25.1 | Some of that truth may not be popular. |
| 1:28.0 | Freedom to choose media has just produced a one-hour documentary on the life and work |
| 1:33.2 | of Thomas Sol. |
| 1:34.7 | The film is called Thomas Sol, Common Sense in a senseless world. |
| 1:39.4 | Let's take a listen to a portion of the film's trailer. |
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