Thomas Sowell: Facts Against Rhetoric, Capitalism, Culture—and, Yes, the Tariffs | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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One guest on this program, one, is more requested by far than any other. Thomas Sowell on Uncommon Knowledge now. Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge. I'm Peter Robinson. Thomas Sowell lived in Gastonia, North Carolina to the age of nine when his family moved to Harlem.
After attending New York City public schools, Thomas Sowell worked in machine shops, tried out for the Brooklyn Dodgers, moved to Washington, D.C. to join the civil service, became a United States Marine, and finally settled into a track in higher education that would take him from Howard University to Harvard University, where he did his, where he where he received his undergraduate degree, to Columbia, where he earned his master's and then to the University of of Chicago, where he earned his doctorate in economics. After teaching at institutions including Douglas, Cornell, and UCLA, Dr. Sowell joined the Hoover Institution here at Stanford, where he has remained a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution for more than four decades.
Dr. Sowell is the author of thousands. Literally, I checked this, thousands of newspaper and magazine columns, and of some five dozen books. His newest project is a website, Facts Against Rhetoric, which you can find at factsagainstrhetoric.org. We're announcing this website today in this podcast for the very first time, so let me repeat it, factsagainstrhetoric.org.
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