Thomas Sowell talks about his new book Economic Facts and Fallacies - Would You Reelect Obama In
Obama.qr55.com - Would you Reelect Obama? Peter Robinson speaks with Thomas Sowell about his new book Economic Facts and Fallacies in which Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues. Sowell takes on the conventional thinking on a wide swath of Americas economic life,...
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Thomas Sowell on the second edition of Intellectuals and Society
On the occasion of the publication of a new edition of his book Intellectuals and Society, Thomas Sowell returns to Uncommon Knowledge for a wide-ranging interview.
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Charles Murray on Coming Apart
This week on Uncommon Knowledge, longtime American Enterprise Institute fellow Charles Murray discusses his controversial new book, Coming Apart, about what American was, is, and will become. He also reveals his personal score on his now famous "bubble quiz." Take the quiz here www.scribd.com
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Thomas Sowell -- Dismantling America
Thomas Sowell has studied and taught economics, intellectual history, and social policy at institutions that include Cornell University, UCLA, and Amherst College. Now a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Sowell has published more than a dozen books, the latest of which is Dismantling Ameri...
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Thomas Sowell on Intellectuals and Society
The author of more than a dozen books, Dr. Sowell is now a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. In his newest work, Intellectuals and Society, he will discuss why so many disasters of our time have been committed by experts or intellectuals. You may remember FDRs Brain Trust which according t...
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Thomas Sowell -- Basic Economics
Thomas Sowell has studied and taught economics, intellectual history, and social policy at institutions that include Cornell University, UCLA, and Amherst College. Now a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Sowell has published more than a dozen books, the latest of which is a revised and upd...
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Thomas Sowell and a Conflict of Visions
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Obamacare and the Supreme Court with Richard Epstein and John Yoo
Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University Law School, and John Yoo, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley law school, examine the merits of various constitutional argumen...
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PAY IT BACKWARDS: The Federal Budget Surplus with Milton Friedman
(Filmed on December 13, 2000.) Milton Friedman discusses what should be done with the federal budget surplus? Does it make sense to spend the surplus on new government programs? What benefits the economy more, cutting taxes or paying down the national debt? Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Fr...
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The Politics of Hollywood with Andrew Breitbart
Identified as one of the ten most important people in the media that nobodys ever met, Andrew Breitbart details why leftward-leaning Hollywood is dangerous for America and why the people who run it are uninteresting, vitriolic, and vicious. Segueing from Hollywood to the Internet, Breitbart explo...
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Thomas Sowell on the Housing Boom and Bust
Thomas Sowell discusses how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust.
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Facts and Fallacies with Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell outlines common misconceptions about economics, race, and racism.
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Uncommon Knowledge classic: The Sixties with Hitchens and William F. Buckley
In this rereleased interview from 1998, Christopher Hitchens, a contributing editor of Vanity Fair magazine, is a self-proclaimed radical. William F. Buckley, Jr., editor-at-large of National Review magazine, is one of the most noted conservatives in the country. During the 1960’s, Hitchens...
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The World According to Andrew Klavan
From his vantage point inside Hollywood and the arts and from the perspective of a writer whose work is imbued with religious themes, Klavan deconstructs the Lefts argument that Western civilization — from its embrace of capitalism to its foundations in Judeo-Christian doctrine to its traditions ...
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Trotsky with Hitchens and Service
Christopher Hitchens and Robert Service introduce Leon Trotsky, one of the half-dozen outstanding Marxist revolutionaries.
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The Word According to Tom Wolfe
Peter Robinson engages Americas master novelist in a conversation that ranges from the death of the American novel to the charming aristocracy that seeks to dictate literary standards to the intersection of culture and the latest findings in neuroscience. Along the way, Tom Wolfe reaffirms his pl...
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