What's new with Thomas Sowell books?
NEW NEWS THAT'S NEWSWORTHY: 1) Basic Books (Sowell's publisher) is teaming up with The Genius of Thomas Sowell Podcast to offer listeners a chance to win 4 Sowell books. Enter at SowellBooks.com for a chance to win! 2) We are having our first, live, in person Book Club meeting on Saturday, July 9, 2022 in Los Angeles. This is a free event.
Is Thomas Sowell our greatest living intellectual?
Thomas Sowell might well be our greatest living Intellectual. His accomplishments span 6 decades and include over 40 books and thousands of columns and articles written on a wide range of topics, from economics to sociology to history to race and culture.
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What is supply side podcast?
The Supply Side Podcast is for everyone who believes economies flourish when people produce goods and services that other people actually want. We talk low taxes, stable money, entrepreneurship and business development with the best thinkers on banking, investment and markets in the world. We prepare you for what happens when the bubbles finally pop.
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Who is the host of Uncommon Knowledge?
For more than two decades the Hoover Institution has been producing Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, a series hosted by Hoover fellow Peter Robinson as an outlet for political leaders, scholars, journalists, and today’s big thinkers to share their views with the world.
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Whoopi Goldberg and Sowell's "Discrimination and Disparities"
In this episode, we explore the recent controversy surrounding comments made by Whoopi Goldberg on "The View" about the Holocaust, and what her comments reveal about the Sorting and Unsorting of people, as presented by Thomas Sowell in his 2018 book "Discrimination and Disparities."
Charles Love on Sowell's "Discrimination and Disparties"
In this episode, we discuss Thomas Sowell's 2018 book Discrimination and Disparities.
West Side Story and Sowell's "A Conflict of Visions"
In this episode we explore the music from Steven Spielberg's new film "West Side Story" and how the themes playing out in the film are explained by Thomas Sowell's classic book "A Conflict of Visions."
How many books has Thomas Sowell written?
Jason Riley describes Thomas Sowell as one of the great social theorists of our age. In Sowell’s career, spanning more than a half century, he has written over thirty books, covering topics from economic history and social inequality to political theory, race, and culture.
What is Jason Riley's observation?
0:21:24.0 Jason Riley: His observation is that we need to view the intellectual class like we would do any special interest group with its own agenda. There are agendas, ideas and influence in political realm and academia and so forth, but they are just another special interest group, and they need to be viewed as such. We don’t view them skeptically enough.
Why did Jason Riley find Marx appealing?
0:06:31.6 Jason Riley: Well, the reason he found Marx appealing, he says, is because Marx explained the world around him at the time. He stumbled onto Marx in his late teens, picked up a second‐hand copy of encyclopedias and noticed an entry on Marx. He was self‐taught, he studied this on his own in his late teens.
What is the story of Jason Riley?
0:07:00.3 Jason Riley: He tells the story of working as a messenger for Western Union. So this is the 1940s. The office was located in lower Manhattan, and some days after work, he’d ride the bus home to Harlem, which is basically the whole length of the island of Manhattan. So he’d get on this bus and it would go up through Wall Street, and then it would go through the expense of shopping districts, past Saks Fifth Avenue, and then it would go on down by Carnegie Hall and then up Riverside Drive, and other well‐to‐do residential neighborhoods.
Where did Jason Riley teach?
0:16:55.6 Jason Riley: That did not go over well with, at the schools where he taught. He taught at Howard University, he taught at Rutgers, Douglas College at Rutgers University. And in the late ’60s, he was teaching at Cornell, where of course you had these armed student protest there in the late ’60s, Tom was there for that.
Who said the role of a scholar is to talk to your peers in the academy in language only they can understand?
0:13:44.8 Jason Riley: He felt that the role of a scholar is not simply to talk to your peers in the academy in language only they can understand, but to explain your discipline to the average person, to be a sort of economics proselytizer and popularizer. And Sowell certainly took that to heart.
Who is Jason Riley?
0:00:11.4 Aaron Ross Powell: Our guest today is Jason Riley. He’s a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal. His new book is Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell. This episode was recorded as a live Cato Institute event. Thank you for joining us today, Jason.
