Thomas Sowell on School Choice and the Price Our Children Pay for Bad Ideas | Peter Robinson | Thomas Sowell | Hoover Institution

Tom Sowell and I have recorded some 20 shows over the last couple of decades. Shall we make it 21? Yeah. Thomas Sowell on Uncommon Knowledge Now. Welcome to this special edition of Uncommon Knowledge.

I'm Peter Robinson. Thomas Sowell lived as a boy in a house without plumbing in Gastonia, North Carolina, spent his teen years in Harlem. Tried out for the Brooklyn Dodgers, how history might have been different, served in the United States Marine Corps, holds degrees from Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Chicago, taught at Douglas College, Cornell, Howard, Brandeis, Amherst, and UCLA, has published at least 40 books. There are different ways to count them depending on revised editions, new editions, reprints, and so forth, and has served for 48 years now as a fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Tom, you and I talked about the conversation we're about to have today, and you said you wanted to devote it to one topic. Not economics, not race, not sociology or culture. You want to talk about education. Yeah, why? The r the reason I I I have uh s such a focus on education is one that it is one of the major

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