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235. Thomas Sowell: The Life and Work of the Legendary Social Theorist (Jason Riley)

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Government Needs to Be Humble About What It Thinks It Can Do

The government needs to be a little more humble about the role it thinks it can play inn in socially engineering the outcomes that it that it wants. History shows that there is an internal development that needs to take place in these groups, and that there are no short cuts to that internal development. I don't think fi. stop trying to replace the father and the home with a government check, or universal basic income," he says.

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