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 to later studies is a prolonged the depression by several years. The wiz kids at the pentagon under McNamara who managed to mess up the Vietnam War, you can run through an impressive list of things, of disasters brought about by people with very high IQs

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[LHAotSF]

The decision of the Hoover institution to disable voting, and moderate comments is quite simply disgusting. Whilst spearheading a man like Sowell, they infringe on free speech, and the active expression of opinion.

[HooverInstitution]

You can vote. We like to read your comments and we appreciate diversity of viewpoints but we do not want racist, homophobic, expletive, etc., comments, therefore, comments must go through an approval process.

[LHAotSF]

Voting (In regards to Upvoting and Downvoting) on a video, or, as youtube put it "ratings," have been disabled on this video, but not on others with (potentially more favourable?) ratings. However, I can't fault your decision to filter out expletives. I do, however, hope that you would re-enable the ratings functions on this video and others, and in turn, trust you use the moderation function to simply filter out expletives- not opposing viewpoints.

[HooverInstitution]

Voting is now enabled on this video. Thank you for your suggestions.

[LHAotSF]

I'd like to thank you on my own behalf too.

[Niekhilet]

I'd like to thank you on LHAotSF's behalf for being rational and listening to criticism.

[zorg zarg]

Of course evolution is a man-made theory. The heliocentric model of the solar system is a man-made theory as well, as is the theory of gravity. All science is theory.

Theories require observable facts in order to even be theories. That's why creationism and religion are not even theory, they're less than theory.

[JACK Jackson]

"Gun control is like OSHA for burglars.." Well said Mr. Sowell!

[jowb63]

Search Evolution: It's a Thing - Crash Course Biology

Hank Green makes an excellent case for evolution.

[GZUS96]

The man that interviewed him was Reagan's speech writer, and responsible for the speech that Reagan gave at the Berlin Wall.