There is a logical progression in fact. I click. I watch. I like. I buy. I read. I read again. And again. Up to about ten different titles of Dr.Sowell now. Unbelievable.
Thats because we continue to elect people with no interest in resolving the issues...Immigration has needed reformed for over 40 years with no resolution..
I used to think that all the homeless people really needed help and were victims of unfortunate financial tragedies. Then I got a job that really gave me a front row seat to the realities of the homeless. Most, if not all, have mental illness, usually from years of drug abuse. Most, if not all, are still using drugs and/or alcohol. They all qualify and receive SSI benefits including housing. They panhandle for money not because they need food, but because their EBT/SNAP cards will not purchase more liquor or drugs. Most have families that tried to give them help and a place to live, but they created safety issues in the home or refused to make positive changes so they had to leave.
@coachhannah2403 it means that those bums are mostly lazy drifters and that we (productive members of American society) shouldn't feel bad about leaving them out there on their perches on local street corners and freeway off ramps without our money or even give them the time of day. It also means that Americans need to wake up and stop voting for sniveling idiot leftists who use said bums as crybullying battering rams to guilt taxpayers into electing and reelecting them to positions where they can waste more of our hard earned money on useless things that don't benefit us. Are we clear?
I came from an actual 3rd world country to western Europe. One day I saw a man panhandling outside of a discount supermarket, I gave him some money. A friend of mine who’s a local told me not to do that again. Before I had the chance to ask why, a nice car passed us by (we were walking) and I saw the man driving it was the one I gave my money to earlier. Apparently after I gave him a change he decided “lets call it a day”, got in his car, and drove away! I learned a lesson that day 😂
I'm admittedly a Dr. Sowell fan so I naturally clicked on this video. I, however, have no idea how great an interviewer Ailes is. He let's him speak, butts in when it's appropriate, asks follow up questions, and all that because he listens. The anecdote about the champion African boxer is absolute gold!! Dr. Sowell, if you'll allow me, I'm stealing that analogy.
You won’t find many disrespectful comments about Doc Sowell. He should’ve been a real decision maker for this country, but truly great men seem to get their due diligence after the fact. Sad, but wonderful at the same time. His ideas and formulations will be with us for the rest of time...
Here is the whole book as an audiobook. ua-cam.com/video/1gNAIfscnqs/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Man%2CStateandMemetics You can listen while you do menial things like cooking or washing up if you do not have the time to sit through the whole thing. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.
People gravitate towards Dr Sowell more and more. A sure sign of how timeless his ideas are and much we need a clear thinker in society. Truly an enlightenment values thinker.
I admire men or / women, such as Thomas Sowell, who are willing to examine a given issue, immerse themselves in it, and reach a well thought out perspective based on the data presented especially when everything in their background would dictate they follow the status quo. They are not afraid to stand alone in order to uphold what is right. This, in spite of the negative reprisals those views may bring. This man has stood for clarity and soundness for decades. May God continue to use his voice and written material to awaken many to clear and balanced views on many serious topics. ❤
As a young man, I was walking through Harvard Square when a white teen girl asked me for any ‘spare’ change - later walking back to the subway station I saw her again , pockets about to burst with change - When I asked her for spare change, she replied she didn’t have any !!
Great interview & discussion! Thanks for making it available. Roger Ailes is an excellent interviewer. And Thomas Sowell is my hero. My wife and I both love his work. He has the mind and spirit of the American Founding Fathers.
@Wo Long You need water? Thats a problem. Drinking water doesnt just solve your thirst, it also leaves you with less water. Thats a tradeoff. In the world of economics, theres nothing BUT tradeoffs.
@Wo Long i never said you couldn't drink from a spring. But now there is less water in that spring, leaving you with less natural resources. Trade off.
@Wo Long you're correct. It does sound hyperbolic. I believe that's why politicians preach it as a solution and not what it is, a trade-off. Some trade-offs are worth it: & I'd consider that to be labelled a good solution, possibly. Either way I believe that's why Dr. Sowell is broadcasting his findings -- the elite use "solutions" to gain power and money without choosing to publicize )or even observe) the counter evidence to their own "solutions," even if it produces opposite results. Thanks for the banter!
Would you be a good president? No I’d probably get impeached. I would do what I thought was right and the people who disagreed would do otherwise. Thomas Sowell is both brilliant and a prophet.
In regards to East Palo Alto, the place really was one of the most dangerous cities in the country. Things finally came to a head in 1994 when the number of murders in EPA reached an all-time high. To his credit, Gov George Dukmejian decided it was time for the state to step in. Between San Mateo SO, the CHP, and officers from at least 15 other agencies in the Bay Area., he started and funded a special task force. I was a reserve deputy in one of those departments at the time and spent a couple nights in EPA serving felony warrants and rounding up criminals that had outstanding warrants for years. We just flooded EPA with cops, and were taking every known or suspected criminal off the streets. I don't know how many we arrested in just that first week, but we needed buses from the Department of Corrections just to transport them all. BY the end of that first week, the good people of EPA could see the police weren't just putting on a big show. Some of the worst and most violent gangsters were off the street and weren't just going to get out on bail this time. We had residents come out of their house and cheer for us as we drove by. It was one of the few times in my 27 year career I felt like I was really doing something to help the weak and defenseless. Defunding the police will never work. Those high crime, mostly minority communities need way more police, not less.
A good man. wise and able to see things as they really are. The statement that some media " commentators" think that they are superior and have all the answers so true today in Australia. Self-titled " analysts" pontificating and speaking as the " Anointed speaking for the Angels" Our good politicians' effectiveness reduced because of the time the good politicians have to spend defending attacks from the " Anointed " who champion anything except the big issues like the CCP. The Anointed are cowardly bullies who if they had any intestinal fortitude would look at the big picture and see where true threats to our lives and way of life are.
You liked him because he didn't grill Dr. Sowell as sharply as Wattenberg did. This guy's questions were softball, and Sowell doesn't need that; he handled Wattenberg's questions and objections quite easily.
@@averagejohnson3985 I think when it comes to higher civic service that it's not appropriate to say someone should do something if they personally don't want to do it.
@@mpcc2022 I think what people who say this really mean is: "Wouldn't it have been great if Thomas Sowell had decided to run for President, and if he had won?" People need their daydreams.
😎..if i have 'spare change'..i Usually 'contribute'.. Long story why...you never know..🙏..Very Wise man...you see Why Most people dont know him..😎..Plus, Errbody Should know from K. Marx and Many Others....Why its Not Good to 'over indulge' your kids..🙏💯💯
I want to know what the Republican’s political considerations were that Dr Sowell referred to during the civil rights era. Historically the Republicans supported black civil rights. So specifically where did they fall short ? I’m sure he’s written about it I just need to know which book!
Sowell hangin out with Ailes...that picture shows exactly who he is. The black conservatisim dream..Ailes thinks I should be president!!I must be a genius!
What? No solutions, only trade-offs? Well, the solution is the course of action in which the benefits substantially outweigh the costs? In other words, it is the course of action in which the trade off is minimal compared to the benefits.
The man himself (or his family) can't pronounce his own name. "Coe-lin" sounds like the name of a pharmaceutical or a furniture polish! The name Colin is centuries old and comes from Scotland: it's pronounced "Coll-in," with a short "o" as in "cost" "cotton," not a long "o" as in "cold" or "coast."
"The Liberals"seems to be used as a form of aspersion by the interviewer. Surely Liberal means to be open to ideas other than those one has been raised with. Liberal is a mindset , not a political movement. Many Democrats are far from liberal in their outlook and political views. The problem in America is that too many people have closed their minds to new ideas or to change. A bit more Liberalism might be a good idea.
Liberal in the political sense of the word means something different. It actually is a political movement. But it also means something different per country. A liberal in my country (the Netherlands) is not the same as a liberal in America, where it's usually conflated with leftism. That's why you also have the term "classical liberal" which is probably what you're talking about.
15:40 Q: Is Jesse Jackson good for African-Americans or not? A: ...after zero hesitation, in fact the question was just about clipped by the vehement instant response... "No! He's good for himself." Pretty devastating Dr. Sowell. I have to agree though.
"There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs." -- Thomas Sowell
Brilliant insight. People look at the imagined benefits and ignore the costs or opportunity costs.
2020 and I have just discovered who this great man is. A godsend for me.
It made me angry that i found out about him in 2020 i was like "are you serious" how have i not seen him before!!!
You might want to examine the reasons why you never heard of him prior to 2020.
@kevinmadden1645 uhm...timing? unwillingness to hear a contradictory view? A reluctance to hear a black man? A short attention span? What's your take?
I am a simple man, I see Thomas Sowell in the title, I click
Indeed.
There is a logical progression in fact.
I click. I watch. I like.
I buy. I read. I read again.
And again. Up to about ten different titles of Dr.Sowell now. Unbelievable.
Fantastic Classic Sowell
Smart black men recognize smart black men
Sowell is just a legend. He's just so damn intelligent.
And honestly clairvoyant. 2021/12/22. Ontario, Canada.
It is an embarrassment to the rest of the population that he is as brilliant as he is.
@kevinmadden1645 It is a great embarrassment and shame!
What they dicussed is still relevant today.
Thats because we continue to elect people with no interest in resolving the issues...Immigration has needed reformed for over 40 years with no resolution..
Even more so...
more than ever
2 years later, and ive noticed my spelling error. 🤡
Immigration hasn’t been fixed because they’re restocking future voters for the Democratic Party.
I just love Thomas Sowell,his books are worth reading over and over again.
Sowell is a man of immense character and also charisma, and not at all a show-off about it either.
Please don't take everything he said here as gospel. Please look at he counter arguments against his argument and the flaws in his reasoning.
@@dewanmdurnto3592 Would you mind pointing me to some?
"It never seems to occur to liberals that other people are not blocks of wood..." That was my favorite line.
He used that line a few other times regarding tax rates. Such a powerful sentence.
He also condemns Donald Trump and Bob Dole. Stop cherry picking quotations. Dr. Sowell reveals ignorance and hypocrisy on both sides.
Meaning that blocks of wood are inanimate objects and "accept" whatever is done to them.
@@krisweaver7524 huh? i think you replied on the wrong comment section.
Bottom line, we are accountable for our actions.
Or, we should be!
we MUST be… otherwise someone else is steering our ship
The kind of teacher that actually deserves tenure. I wish I had teachers like him.
Sowell involuntarily saying "Oh my gosh" whenever he's overcome by the scale of how effed the world is, it always inspires me, that level of passion.
I like his “heaven help us” in exasperation towards a certain person or policy haha.
He predicted where we are today decades ago. Such a brilliant man.
The black William F . Buckley .
On second thought, maybe Buckley is the white Thomas Sowell.
@@kevinmadden1645 how about simply men who rise to the call for their individual time...
This man predicted the next 25 years
Yup.
Bro I can listen to Sowell all day everyday!!! This man is amazing and so simple
Sowell is astounding!
great to see such in depth interviews and on a wide ranging topics. Sowell, what a man!
One of the greatest interviews I have ever watched. Both men are in form.
"Their are no soloutions, only trade offs".
If their was ever a quote to epitomise the instric nature of humanity, this would be it.
I used to think that all the homeless people really needed help and were victims of unfortunate financial tragedies. Then I got a job that really gave me a front row seat to the realities of the homeless. Most, if not all, have mental illness, usually from years of drug abuse. Most, if not all, are still using drugs and/or alcohol. They all qualify and receive SSI benefits including housing. They panhandle for money not because they need food, but because their EBT/SNAP cards will not purchase more liquor or drugs. Most have families that tried to give them help and a place to live, but they created safety issues in the home or refused to make positive changes so they had to leave.
Crazy world
also they dont want to work.. ive helped in a soup kitchen and you see them with nice watches and jewlery and new phones.
And that means what?
@coachhannah2403 it means that those bums are mostly lazy drifters and that we (productive members of American society) shouldn't feel bad about leaving them out there on their perches on local street corners and freeway off ramps without our money or even give them the time of day. It also means that Americans need to wake up and stop voting for sniveling idiot leftists who use said bums as crybullying battering rams to guilt taxpayers into electing and reelecting them to positions where they can waste more of our hard earned money on useless things that don't benefit us. Are we clear?
I came from an actual 3rd world country to western Europe. One day I saw a man panhandling outside of a discount supermarket, I gave him some money. A friend of mine who’s a local told me not to do that again. Before I had the chance to ask why, a nice car passed us by (we were walking) and I saw the man driving it was the one I gave my money to earlier. Apparently after I gave him a change he decided “lets call it a day”, got in his car, and drove away! I learned a lesson that day 😂
I'm admittedly a Dr. Sowell fan so I naturally clicked on this video. I, however, have no idea how great an interviewer Ailes is. He let's him speak, butts in when it's appropriate, asks follow up questions, and all that because he listens.
The anecdote about the champion African boxer is absolute gold!! Dr. Sowell, if you'll allow me, I'm stealing that analogy.
You just know he’s a good dad
Man, the great majority of my favourite people have served in the military.
The greatest. Thank you Mr Sowell
Amazing interview! I love listening to Sowell talk.
He's the Bruce Lee of Economics
Not corrupted by the politics! Real man and a real president of intellectual vision well beyond our time!
@LiveOkie Absolutely, the common sense is merely lacking today.
Still a refreshing voice to hear. I had a great time listening to this. When he says “symbolic statements” we now call that “virtue signaling”
Need to get a copy of this book, it's still fully relevant.
You won’t find many disrespectful comments about Doc Sowell. He should’ve been a real decision maker for this country, but truly great men seem to get their due diligence after the fact. Sad, but wonderful at the same time. His ideas and formulations will be with us for the rest of time...
Before Ailes was able to finish the Jesse Jackson question, Sowell answered "no!"
Thomas Sowell is a Nation Treasure.
Sowell sounds like a time traveler when he talks. Almost depressing how little has changed
I am so impressed with Thomas Sowell?
It's refreshing to hear another perspective.The extremes make up the majority of news coverage.
Here is the whole book as an audiobook.
ua-cam.com/video/1gNAIfscnqs/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Man%2CStateandMemetics
You can listen while you do menial things like cooking or washing up if you do not have the time to sit through the whole thing. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.
True scholar
People gravitate towards Dr Sowell more and more. A sure sign of how timeless his ideas are and much we need a clear thinker in society.
Truly an enlightenment values thinker.
Thomas is a Man
Sowell was basically a prophet because everything he had said is coming to pass.
Thomas Sowell ia an American treasure.
A voice crying in the wilderness
Thomas Sowell ✅🏆🥇🥊what a knockout💥💯🎯🤯Mind Blowing
I admire men or / women, such as Thomas Sowell, who are willing to examine a given issue, immerse themselves in it, and reach a well thought out perspective based on the data presented especially when everything in their background would dictate they follow the status quo. They are not afraid to stand alone in order to uphold what is right. This, in spite of the negative reprisals those views may bring. This man has stood for clarity and soundness for decades. May God continue to use his voice and written material to awaken many to clear and balanced views on many serious topics. ❤
just read this a few months ago FANTASTIC
'A clock that stops will be right twice a day' 👌
Dude looked great here at 65. Now at 93 he still publishing books and kicking ass.
He's 65 here 😳.
I hope I'm that fast at 65, the problem is, I'm not that fast at 50! Im screwed! lol
He should have been our first black President
Great interview. This was by far his best book
Pure logic in its rawest form😃
I could this to Sowell all day long.
As a young man, I was walking through Harvard Square when a white teen girl asked me for any ‘spare’ change - later walking back to the subway station I saw her again , pockets about to burst with change - When I asked her for spare change, she replied she didn’t have any !!
Great interview & discussion! Thanks for making it available.
Roger Ailes is an excellent interviewer.
And Thomas Sowell is my hero. My wife and I both love his work.
He has the mind and spirit of the American Founding Fathers.
It's sad that this genius dont have a bigger platform
Dr. Sowell is a National treasure.
Wow! Scathing view on Jesse Jackson!
...and accurate.
The antidote to Antifa
"There are no solutions to anybody's problems; there are tradeoffs" - omg Can we think about this for a minute?
@Wo Long You need water? Thats a problem. Drinking water doesnt just solve your thirst, it also leaves you with less water. Thats a tradeoff. In the world of economics, theres nothing BUT tradeoffs.
@Wo Long i never said you couldn't drink from a spring. But now there is less water in that spring, leaving you with less natural resources. Trade off.
@sebatian Thank you
@Wo Long You just said it has a con, that con is the trade off, you okay?
@Wo Long you're correct. It does sound hyperbolic. I believe that's why politicians preach it as a solution and not what it is, a trade-off. Some trade-offs are worth it: & I'd consider that to be labelled a good solution, possibly. Either way I believe that's why Dr. Sowell is broadcasting his findings -- the elite use "solutions" to gain power and money without choosing to publicize )or even observe) the counter evidence to their own "solutions," even if it produces opposite results.
Thanks for the banter!
This guy is spot on every time but never got much of the limelight because he has zero fucks to give for peoples feelings. Just the facts.
This guy is amazing
Imagine if young black girls and boys at 12 or 14 years old watched this an .....
Would you be a good president?
No I’d probably get impeached. I would do what I thought was right and the people who disagreed would do otherwise.
Thomas Sowell is both brilliant and a prophet.
Omg, 2021 this is so current, would love to see him up against Biden Pelosi etc.
I think I'd better write him for President thus year.
Despite being 10 years older than Ailes, Thomas Sowell looks like he could be his teenage son.
Good ol' Mr. Baritone.
In regards to East Palo Alto, the place really was one of the most dangerous cities in the country. Things finally came to a head in 1994 when the number of murders in EPA reached an all-time high. To his credit, Gov George Dukmejian decided it was time for the state to step in. Between San Mateo SO, the CHP, and officers from at least 15 other agencies in the Bay Area., he started and funded a special task force. I was a reserve deputy in one of those departments at the time and spent a couple nights in EPA serving felony warrants and rounding up criminals that had outstanding warrants for years. We just flooded EPA with cops, and were taking every known or suspected criminal off the streets. I don't know how many we arrested in just that first week, but we needed buses from the Department of Corrections just to transport them all. BY the end of that first week, the good people of EPA could see the police weren't just putting on a big show. Some of the worst and most violent gangsters were off the street and weren't just going to get out on bail this time. We had residents come out of their house and cheer for us as we drove by. It was one of the few times in my 27 year career I felt like I was really doing something to help the weak and defenseless. Defunding the police will never work. Those high crime, mostly minority communities need way more police, not less.
Thank you for your first hand observations.
Thank you Dr Sowell. We need people to pick up where you have led us which is that Freedom is the main point. Government is the problem.
prophetic -
UA-cam algorithm is doing its job correctly.
A good man. wise and able to see things as they really are. The statement that some media " commentators" think that they are superior and have all the answers so true today in Australia. Self-titled " analysts" pontificating and speaking as the " Anointed speaking for the Angels" Our good politicians' effectiveness reduced because of the time the good politicians have to spend defending attacks from the " Anointed " who champion anything except the big issues like the CCP. The Anointed are cowardly bullies who if they had any intestinal fortitude would look at the big picture and see where true threats to our lives and way of life are.
Lifestyle has everything to do with where you are in Life period...
We need more people who think like Thomas Sowell.
Thomas Sowell is 65. He looks great and is sharp.
He's over 91
I see Thomas I click
I liked this interviewer a lot more than Ben Wattenberg who also interviewed Dr. Sowell re: the same book.
You liked him because he didn't grill Dr. Sowell as sharply as Wattenberg did. This guy's questions were softball, and Sowell doesn't need that; he handled Wattenberg's questions and objections quite easily.
Man he really was ahead of his time and in many ways he reminds me of a college professor,clam version of George Carlin.
A genius.
The interviewer looks a lot like Alfred Hitchcock.
A mosquito in a nudest colony
He saw what was coming decades ago.
I wish he was are Prez.
Thomas Sowell could have been the first black president.
should
@@averagejohnson3985 I think when it comes to higher civic service that it's not appropriate to say someone should do something if they personally don't want to do it.
Nah, he doesn’t promise enough goodies to become president and holds people accountable. People want lies and hope.
@@mpcc2022 I think what people who say this really mean is: "Wouldn't it have been great if Thomas Sowell had decided to run for President, and if he had won?" People need their daydreams.
😎..if i have 'spare change'..i Usually 'contribute'.. Long story why...you never know..🙏..Very Wise man...you see Why Most people dont know him..😎..Plus, Errbody Should know from K. Marx and Many Others....Why its Not Good to 'over indulge' your kids..🙏💯💯
Thomas Sowell and the mosquito in the nudist colony... he’s said that for awhile now lmbo
There are no solutions only tradeoffs
I want to know what the Republican’s political considerations were that Dr Sowell referred to during the civil rights era. Historically the Republicans supported black civil rights. So specifically where did they fall short ? I’m sure he’s written about it I just need to know which book!
Sowell hangin out with Ailes...that picture shows exactly who he is. The black conservatisim dream..Ailes thinks I should be president!!I must be a genius!
What? No solutions, only trade-offs? Well, the solution is the course of action in which the benefits substantially outweigh the costs? In other words, it is the course of action in which the trade off is minimal compared to the benefits.
0:36 Sowell predicts Trump impeachment 24 years later
Why do people pronounce Colin Powells name like it is part of the bowel. It's COLIN not COLON !
That’s how Americans pronounce it.
The man himself (or his family) can't pronounce his own name. "Coe-lin" sounds like the name of a pharmaceutical or a furniture polish! The name Colin is centuries old and comes from Scotland: it's pronounced "Coll-in," with a short "o" as in "cost" "cotton," not a long "o" as in "cold" or "coast."
Damn in every country the history, language, humanities professors cause the same problem
My god this man is well spoken...
Excuse me people, 'just replied to Sowells' comment on Ivy league-apparently a glitch I did wiped out the whole thread,go figure(actually sorry).
President Trump should ask Thomas Sowell to be in his gorup of people in the White house
He doesn't travel.
Am I the anointed?
Roger Ailes may have been a creep but boy was he a good interviewer.
"The Liberals"seems to be used as a form of aspersion by the interviewer. Surely Liberal means to be open to ideas other than those one has been raised with. Liberal is a mindset , not a political movement. Many Democrats are far from liberal in their outlook and political views. The problem in America is that too many people have closed their minds to new ideas or to change. A bit more Liberalism might be a good idea.
Liberal in the political sense of the word means something different. It actually is a political movement. But it also means something different per country. A liberal in my country (the Netherlands) is not the same as a liberal in America, where it's usually conflated with leftism. That's why you also have the term "classical liberal" which is probably what you're talking about.
Don't have a problem with liberals such as Jordan Peterson. Problem is, liberalism is all to often a stepping stone on the way to left-ism.
15:40 Q: Is Jesse Jackson good for African-Americans or not? A: ...after zero hesitation, in fact the question was just about clipped by the vehement instant response... "No! He's good for himself."
Pretty devastating Dr. Sowell. I have to agree though.
There is a solution is called digital DNA and you know it! 3:41