{"id":467,"date":"2020-08-05T15:25:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T15:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=467"},"modified":"2020-08-05T15:25:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T15:25:27","slug":"thomas-sowell-possibly-the-smartest-man-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/05\/thomas-sowell-possibly-the-smartest-man-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Sowell, possibly the smartest man in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>P&#038;C drink and review Hop Stoopid Ale from Lagunitas Brewing, then discuss &#8220;the smartest man in America,&#8221; Thomas Sowell. <\/p>\n<p>While he never speaks much about it, Thomas Sowell <A href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/thomas-sowell-race-poverty-culture\">has a very interesting life story<\/a> that would make a good movie &#8212; if Hollywood cared about black conservatives. <\/p>\n<p>Sowell speaks clearly, converting complicated concepts into ordinary language that regular people can understand. <\/p>\n<p>At the foundation of his philosophy is two contrasts. First, between practical knowledge and academic knowledge. Second, between the constrained vision &#8212; that takes into account the limits of human nature &#8212; and the unconstrained vision &#8212; which believes man can be perfected by the correct policies. <\/p>\n<p>P&#038;C end the show with a series of pithy Sowell quotes. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/15493355\/height\/360\/theme\/standard\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/\" height=\"360\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P&#038;C drink and review Hop Stoopid Ale from Lagunitas Brewing, then discuss &#8220;the smartest man in America,&#8221; Thomas Sowell. While he never speaks much about it, Thomas Sowell has a very interesting life story that would make a good movie &#8212; if Hollywood cared about black conservatives. Sowell speaks clearly, converting complicated concepts into ordinary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/05\/thomas-sowell-possibly-the-smartest-man-in-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thomas Sowell, possibly the smartest man in America&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}