Today on Uncommon Knowledge, Thomas Sowell, author of Intellectuals and Society, on the politics of hope and change.

Barack Obama:

We are the one’s we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Thomas Sowell:

People who say things like this act as if they are saying something new. This is what was being said back in the 1790s and ever since then. You know, there’s nothing older than the idea that this is new. . . . Think of all the absurd things that have been believed throughout all of history. I guess the one common denominator is that those absurd things typically were very flattering to those who believed them.

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