He might actually be too smart to want to be president looking at the shitstorm that has landed on every conservative that ever held office. I just want to see him debate Cornel West, that would be must-see TV.

Your comment lights my heart and I hope you've made great strides since you've made this post. Consciousness and awareness are truly undervalued in our society and it's always great to hear folks pursuing the truth.

Excellent

+corey fisher I'm reminded of Ferguson and the knee-jerk reaction; Especially since many facts were proved to be convoluted or just plain Wrong. Why do you think ppl vote for the dem/rep elect that they seem Most on TV? Discovered that fact many years ago now.

+glytchd I shoulda put a " " around my 1st use of the word 'facts' lol. Dont believe? the 1st coroner was already highly suspect if not, what most sane folks might call 'discredited. Let alone how he'd claim to be part of organizations/on-campus-boards. but that's right.. I must be a racist!

the greatest to of the twentieth century the laptop and voters are not smart enough to use it for research disgusting ignorance

"Communist" Organizers don't unify they divide. They did it before, and they can do it again. unfortunately ...

I have some trouble sometimes sticking with Union organizers, just because they sometime go far and drive jobs and business into nonexistance. Unions divide.

+Eric Garland Yea, but you know it will never happen. He is the great Oz, just a curtain hides Obama's agenda. He would never risk being exposed, plus only people that actually care about the Truth enter into meaningful conversations that are based on fact and reality.

I'd pay Krugman a million dollars to debate him if I had the $ just so I could see him get eviscerated.

+William Clogston: 2nd him = Krugman

+Eric Garland Obama is half his age and too much of a sissy. I'd love to see Sowell dispatch of that "Dr." Joy DeGruy of the post traumatic slave syndrome unicorn pop psychology infamy. That would be a great and messy smackdown.

+William Clogston boy that would be something to see!

They were too busy giving it to Obama, the systems are all rigged against us.

The Swedes give out the Nobel prizes and Sowell doesn't have the right political views.

Grace... Why? Gij,j = 0...

The easy answer is because of the work he does... He has not "discovered" a new aspect of Economics, much of what he talks about was talked about by Mises, Hayek, et.al. He does so in a brilliantly simple way, which puts him above them in many aspects, but ultimately is not "new." The hard answer involves the before bit, and a little bit of what StephenNu9 said, He "doesn't have the right political views," up to and including, not being interested in winning one... Remember, Hitler, Obama and Paul Krugman have all won one. And there is a point were an organization whose job it is to honor excellence looses credibility. The Hugo awards have been working on that heavily for years.

He is not a social democrat. Look for Sanders to get the next: like Obama, he has achieved nothing, but is a symbol for the Progressive dreams of Utopia.

Me too . Even still, he must be very old now and like a prophet he has said his piece and should be thinking of himself and his family and just watch and laugh as the shit hits the fan so he does not lose even one day of life from strife. May he live to 120.

He would "likely" say something about saying the same thing 10, 20, 30, 100 yrs AGO

He's got a book coming out this month

I saw that he has just written a book about charter schools, coming out at the end of the month! The shipping costs to Europe are high, but it'll be worth it.

Judging by his previous videos, it would probably be not shutting down the economy without the facts/ we cannot indicate police violence as a race thing when the statistics speak otherwise

yup

AGREED

Agreed. A brilliant man.

And he is a war vet! A true American hero

fer sure

no hes not.. there is abundance of wise men.. don't over compensate your being white shame.

His books should be mandatory reading in the universities as well. His words are sorely needed in the cesspool of left wing academia.

Timothy Bradford Agreed!

+Minor Preference , with regard to your rhetorical question, sadly you're probably right. Most people of color focus more on the color of one's skin rather than the content of a person's character. That explains why 95% of blacks voted for Obama twice having no clue who he really was! Mr. Swell said it well with his closing advice, *_"...if we through some miracle get through this ... please take to heart the lesson of what happens when you vote on the bases of rhetoric and symbolism in stead of using your mind. It doesn't matter how smart you are, unless you stop and think!"_* Powerful closing advice!

+Timothy Bradford Indeed. I love this guy!

+Timothy Bradford Ye he is good, not sure about Iran though would like 100% proof that leadership was hell bent on attack, then yes attack them first, i would always look for political and diplomatic solutions, instead of the hammer, without giving any concessions of course

+Timothy Bradford Ye he is good, not sure about Iran though would like 100% proof that leadership was hell bent on attack, then yes attack them first, i would always look for political and diplomatic solutions, instead of the hammer, without giving any concessions of course

he's awesome!

I look at him as to a master - teacher. Admirable person!

You won't be sorry you found him, although you may be bleary-eyed! Check out his books. They are very readable. And find the young Sowell in Friedman's still-timely series, "Free to Choose".

Indeed, that's what happens when you start listening to Dr Sowell, it's now about 00:30 after midnight and I should have gone to bed way before midnight, and I still want to listen to another interview before going to bed. But I've got to go...Dr Sowell leaves you questioning the way you look at the world. Long Live Dr Sowell! To call him a Rockstar is an understatement because you cannot compare him with any rockstar, my opinion.

+Rich P Academia paid this man a salary for decades while he was writing these opinions openly.

+Falcrist good luck trying to write any of these ideas (specifically anything politically incorrect) if you are a post doc or have not yet acquired tenure.

MercurialETC Sowell started writing about this stuff before he had earned a professorship, and continues to write about it long after leaving his tenured positions.

+Falcrist we both know you're not that dense man. He's clearly talking about up-and-comers this day in age and how hard it would be for them to expound on these types of ideas from a conservative point of view. He's not talking about 50 years ago.

Johnny Flores That version of the comment is also wrong. There are conservative professors on nearly every campus. You can find them most often in the economics and poli-sci departments, but they certainly exist in sociology.

Exacty right.

No doubt, Thomas Sowell is a brilliant man. In short, "neo-libs/progs" don't like facts, like they are actually intolerant and not very liberal at all anymore. They're into virtue signaling fake feelings about artificial constructs. No facts, no problem solving. Don't like delusional non-fact finding people creating long term serious difficulties, you are more likely conservative.

27 and the same thing

I think that is beneath him, politics is a corrupt man's game, and he's too honest.

+perliva He is a national treasure !!!!

+Andy P he is an international treasure.