Economic Migrants - Let the Market Decide

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You wrote a book on emmigration. I haven't read that yet, but i'm going oming to do that next. That doesn't sound very conservative to me. It sounds more like libertarian, open the borders and let the market decide. But there's no doubt that we need to reform our emigration system. Even with the cost of emigration, and there are costs, i think at the end of the day, we're better off with them than we are withoutte m,. well, i'm born and raised here in southern california, and i've been around mexican immigrants my whole life.

Shermer speaks with Jason Riley about Maverick — the first-ever biography of Thomas Sowell, one of the great social theorists of our age. In a career spanning more than a half century, Sowell has written over thirty books, covering topics from economic history and social inequality to political theory, race, and culture. His bold and unsentimental assaults on liberal orthodoxy have endeared him to many readers but have also enraged fellow intellectuals, the civil-rights establishment, and much of the mainstream media. The result has been a lack of acknowledgment of his scholarship among critics who prioritize political correctness.

Shermer and Riley discuss: Riley’s documentary on Sowell; Sowell’s philosophy that “there are no solutions, only trade-offs”; mismatch theory and affirmative action; race and IQ; why Riley thinks liberals make it harder for blacks to succeed; political correctness; BLM, antiracism, reparations; charity and welfare; income inequality and UBI, and much more…