When, as a much younger man—I was still in high school—I was watching Firing Line, hosted by Willian F. Buckley. The show was a venue for debate and discussion. It was years before the internet and decades before podcasts, venues that provide plenty of room for pseudo-intellectuals. If you were a guest on Firing Line, you weren’t pseudo anything; you were the “real deal.”
In my first experience with watching Firing Line, among those debating and discussing was Thomas Sowell. The issue was economic factors, or socioeconomic conditions, as they pertained to race. Did I grasp every issue in totality? The debate/discussion rose well above how matters got hashed out around my own dining room table. Still, it stretched my intellect to where I was able to grasp most of it, or enough of it to understand who was making the most sense. In other words, we know the truth when we hear it. That day, I became a fan of Thomas Sowell, and since then have read many of his books. Below, please watch Coleman Hughes, Victor Davis Hanson, and Niall Ferguson discuss the legacy of Thomas Sowell.
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