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Hi, everybody. This is Gad Saad.

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A few minutes ago, I posted an article on 
my website,

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which I thought might also be worthwhile 
to share both on my YouTube channel here, 
and on my podcast,

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so I will read you the article in question. 
Hope you enjoy it.

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So, ten reasons why you should love Thomas 
Sowell.

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Dr. Thomas Sowell is one of the leading public 
intellectuals alive today.

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I have long been an admirer of his, and earlier 
today I listened to a new documentary of 
his life.

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This motivated me to put together this list 
of reasons enumerating why you should engage 
in a deep dive of his collected works

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if you've yet to do so.

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One, he is capable of changing his views 
in light of new evidence.

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He was an avowed Marxist, but eventually 
dropped this ideology in light of emerging 
facts,

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including an interaction with the real world, 
when he took up a governmental job.

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Hence, he possesses epistemic humility, along 
with a willingness to use evidence

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to test any ideological positions that he 
might have held.

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Two, he is a fully-fledged inter-disciplinarian 
having published works in countless domains

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within and outside of economics, his home 
field.

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These include economic matters, for example, 
the imposition of a minimum wage;

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ethnicity and race, social policy, for example, 
 affirmative action, universal health care;

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intellectualism, and late-talking children, 
the Einstein syndrome.

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Hence, he is an economist, a cultural critic, 
an anthropologist, a sociologist, and a philosopher.

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He is not a "stay in your lane" intellectual.

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Three, he is a synthetic thinker and a polymath.

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Sowell has explained that being a photographer 
is about navigating through various trade-offs.

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He has made that exact point regarding economic 
and social policies.

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Life is about trade-offs.

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Four, he is a honey badger. He does not suffer 
fools gladly.

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Five, he does not give a flying f*** of what 
you think of him.

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He espouses his evidence-based positions 
unencumbered by prevailing politically correct 
orthodoxy.

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He has zero interest in belonging to the 
cool kids’ club.

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He is his own man, walking tall and with 
full epistemological confidence.

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Six, he is a man of the people, and that 
he has spent much of his career writing for 
the masses.

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He recognizes that knowledge should not be 
restricted to a stroking of elitist egos 
in the Ivory Tower.

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He ended up leaving his faculty appointment 
to join the Hoover Institution

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freeing himself from the constraining elements 
of holding a professorship.

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Seven, he despises identity politics. He 
is a staunch defender of individual dignity.

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Eight, he rejects the ethos of victimology 
and instead believes in the dignity of personal 
agency

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and individual freedom.

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Nine, he adores books. He is a voracious 
reader.

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And finally, ten, the tenth reason why you 
should love Thomas Sowell, he is Thomas Sowell.

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Be like Thomas Sowell. Cheers, everybody.