235. Thomas Sowell: The Life and Work of the Legendary Social Theorist (Jason Riley)
The Michael Shermer Show
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What I Like About Tom Sole's Personal Life
Am thomas sole had a rather untraditional background, ansti, and still made it highly successful as an intellectual. He earned bachelor's phd, the whole thing, harvard professor, cornell professor, and author. So to what extent, is he just sow he's just so smart that he was able to overcome these disadvantages? Or are their lessons for us to learn, politically about about his life and success? I'm not sure i agree with that characterization. Tom's an empirical thinker. He's looking at the experience of blacks and other groups prior to these huge welfare state interventions,. And then looking at their experience after those interventions were put into place. The data
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