Posted on 11/26/2018 8:57:39 PM PST by OddLane
Thirty-eight years ago, Reason contributor Thomas Hazlett and Senior Editor Manny Klausner sat down with University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) economist and social scientist Thomas Sowell for a sprawling interview about race, gender, poverty, economics, and what he viewed as the government's many failed and misguided attempts to lift up poor minorities. Sowell talked about his history as a Marxist, his frustrations with working in government, and why he rejects the label "libertarian," preferring instead to describe himself as "a person who dissents from the current liberal orthodoxy."
That interview occurred not long after the publication of one of Sowell's most influential and widely read books, Knowledge and Decisions, which resulted in The New York Times labeling him "America's most distinguished black social scientist."
In the years since, his fame and influence have only expanded. He has written dozens of books, including the much-lauded Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy; served as a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution; and been presented with the Francis Boyer Award by the American Enterprise Institute, the Sydney Hook Award by the National Association of Scholars, and, in 2002, the National Humanities Award for his work in economics and political science. He remains one of America's most distinguished social scientists, period...
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He was like a hero of mine. I dont know why he couldnt get over Trump - couldnt see that throughout history, imperfect men have been great leaders.
**he seems genuinely optimistic about the unleashing of the potential in black children that charter schools offer.**
I beg to differ on that point. One only has to look at the Hartford PS, Hartford, Connecticut to see the abject failure of Shef v O’Neil and charter, [some Afro-centric], magnet, school choice [aka racial quota] schools...Lots of graft, millions & billions wasted, embezzlement.
Sorry Dr. Sowell, I respect your thoughts, but in this, you are dead wrong.
Bttt.
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You got it backwards, I said it was property and theft.
On my nightstand where it is read constantly, and will stay, forever. :)
My personal opinion of the esteemed doctor dropped a notch from reading this interview. While I agree with his pessimistic viewpoints regarding the qualities of life in the ‘60’s versus today, I see it for vastly different reasons than he.
How can an otherwise intelligent man not be thoroughly disenchanted with Marxism by the time he is in his 80s?
Good choice, my FRiend! ;^)
Sorry. I didn’t expect to make such an error when merely copying your words and pasting them. But then I switched who said what. Things for correcting that.
Not long after that, we realized that there were some things we knew about that we didn't really know. So we thought about it for a while, and discovered that we just couldn't know everything about not only stuff we didn't know about things we knew about, but also all the stuff we knew we didn't know about anything we knew about.
Nowadays, we are smarter. We know we don't know, but we just don't know what to think about all that stuff we know we don't know about what we know, let alone all the stuff we don't know about things we know we don't know, or even what we don't know.
But we are learning. Pretty soon, we will know what it is we don't know about the things we know about, and we will FINALLY learn just what it is that we don't know about what it is we don't know. When we can know what we don't know about what we know we know, we will know what we need to know.
(Blog entry of mine from years ago. Blog is gone, and I had a heck of a time finding this in the voluminous archives. Hope you enjoy it!)
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