Uncommon Knowledge Returns to NR

I’m very happy to announce that Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, the show I host for the Hoover Institution is back on National Review. And this week, we debut with one of the great conservative thinkers and writers of our time, Thomas Sowell. In this interview, Dr. Sowell discusses poverty around the world and in the United States. Poverty in America, he says, compared to the rest of the world, is not severe. Many poor people in poverty in the United States have one or two cars, central heating, and cell phones. The real problem for the poor is the destruction of the family, which Sowell argues dramatically increased once welfare policies were introduced in the 1960s.