Representative appearances

• Thomas Sowell: A Free Man | Uncommon Knowledge

  Today, an interview with, by far our most requested guest, Thomas Sowell. ... I've interviewed Tom over and over again ... Thomas Sowell has studied and taught economics ...

• Thomas Sowell Turns 95 | The Hoover Institution

  With all the facicissitudes of my life and the long years of living close to despair, nevertheless, in retrospect, I can see that I was lucky in many ways. Close quote. I left home when I was uh 17 years old. And uh uh I I learned out there in the marketplace that there was no great demand for high school dropouts with no skills and no experience. And there were times when uh when I had trouble finding the money for food and for the rent money and so on. And I remember the the lowest point I remember walking from my uh where I lived in a rooming house on 142nd Street in Harlem to where I worked just below the Brooklyn Bridge. Oh my goodness. Cuz I did not have enough money. That's seven miles or so. Yeah. To both ride the subway and buy food. And I preferred the food. In what ways have you been lucky? because I I learned things that I couldn't have learned other ways. Uh for example, uh there was no way I was going to live spending every dime I had thereafter. I I learned that people who are ordinary people knew far more than I did even though they were not intellectuals and even though I I had read more books than they had and so forth and so on. And I spent several years like that. And so I never had this uh condescending attitude toward ordinary people that so many intellectuals have. You know, I I realized those people know a hell of a lot and they knew a hell of a lot more than I did about things that mattered. And and and I I remember uh from that era I I I I finally reached the point where I had to ask the uh foreman uh to borrow some money from me because cuz I I What were you working at at this a machine shop down on the on the Lower East Side and uh to borrow more some money from me from him so I could walk so I could ride to work on the subway and eat at the same time. And he lent me $5. And one of the most uh wonderful experiences I remember since then, decades later, when I'm in New York on a book tour, I phone him and invite him to dinner with his family and we had dinner up at the top of the World Trade Center. Oh, I wonder. And we spent the time and uh when we parted, he and I were both on the verge of tears, you know, and that was the last time I saw him.

• Thomas Sowell on Minority Voters | Uncommon Knowledge

  Thomas Sowell on Minority Voters | Uncommon Knowledge

• Thomas Sowell: Facts Against Rhetoric, Capitalism, Culture and Yes, the Tariffs | Hoover Institution

  Guest on the program, economist, and author of numerous books and the website Facts Against Rhetoric.

• Thomas Sowell Discusses The Trump Tariffs | Uncommon Knowledge | Full Interview on April 15, 2025

  Thomas Sowell Discusses The Trump Tariffs