Thomas Sowell: A Free Man | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

I'm Peter Robinson of Uncommon Knowledge. Today an interview with by far our most requested guest, Thomas Sowell. We filmed this interview last December, that is December of 2024, and it's a special interview. I've interviewed Tom over and over again over the last quarter of a century, but always before we've been discussing one of his books. How did he come to write the book?

What are the arguments in the book? What have the critics set of about the book, how does he answer the critics, but always that book. In this interview, we're going to be hearing about Tom Sowell's life, beginning with the small home on a dirt road in North Carolina where he spent his first years. Then we moved to Harlem, we moved to the Marine Corps and on it goes.

We're used to thinking of Tom Sowell as being Tom Sowell, the author, the brilliant intellect. In this interview, how Tom Sowell became Tom Sowell? Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, I'm Peter Robinson. Thomas Sole has studied and taught economics, intellectual history, and social policy at institutions that include Cornell, UCLA, and Amherst. Now a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Dr.

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