Thomas Sowell In His Own Speak

Common sense is what Thomas Sowell speaks and you learn a lot about economics in the process. I've been following Thomas Sowell ever since he was on Bill Buckley's "Firing Line" in the 1970s. He's a clear minded, incisive intellectual who was once a Marxist but came to his senses unlike the current occupant of the White House. "We're raising whole generations that regard facts as optional ..." says Thomas Sowell. "They're being taught that it is important to have views and they're not being taught that it's important to know what you're talking about." That's an indictment of the educational system that needs to be addressed. "I've always believed that there are pockets of sanity ..." he says. What's important of course is that the pockets of sanity grow larger. Sowell says that kids growing up in Harlem today don't get nearly the education that he got. Asked for an optimistic note, Tom Sowell said that he was 80 so he wouldn't have to see the outcome of most of the current policies.