Consequences Matter: Thomas Sowell on “Social Justice Fallacies” | Uncommon Knowledge

Recorded on September 7, 2023.

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. In this wide-ranging interview, Dr. Sowell discusses the consequences of our society’s embarking on a quest for equality at the expense of merit. Even if every group in society is given an equal chance, he explains, these groups will end up with disparate levels of income or education. Dr. Sowell also criticizes the concept of systemic racism; his research reveals it doesn’t appear to apply to blacks (watch the interview to see why that word isn’t capitalized here) who are married. The interview concludes with Dr. Sowell reading a moving passage from his book.

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93 and he just published a book! One can only dream to get to old age with a mind so sharp and wise like Dr. Sowell

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The whitest of white pills is that Dr. Sowell is still with us, and hardly diminished by his age. What a treat to hear him.

[TheMidnightCzar]

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[Fortior.]

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[craigb]

Was afraid we'd seen the last of Sowell in public. Great to have him back. Sharp and logical as ever.

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Tom Sowell still at it at 93. Truly a legend.

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He’s more eloquent of a speaker and just so much better of an intellectual at 93 years old, than virtually any college student in America.

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