"Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World" traces Sowell's journey from humble beginnings to the Hoover Institution, becoming one of our era’s greatest economists, political philosophers, and prolific authors. Watch the trailer below to learn more about the film and click here to find your local listing: http://hvr.co/2Mo7XRw | Hoover Institution

Thomas Sowell debates a woman on the issues with welfare: "What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail." | Young America's Foundation

Why do we believe what we believe? And how do those beliefs shape our politics? Thomas Sowell, one of the world’s most influential economists and social philosophers, set out to answer this question in his 1987 book, A Conflict of Visions. In it, he traces the underlying logic behind all modern political divides—why it is that knowing someone’s position on one issue, say gun control, makes it easy to predict their position on a totally unrelated issue, like abortion. Watch Old School with Shilo