This week on Uncommon Knowledge, an interview with the legendary economist, social critic, and author, Thomas Sowell, about his newest book, Economic Facts and Fallacies. Today, the quintessential, and endlessly recurring, gender-political issue of our time: Why do men make more money than women?

correct answer–is that women are subject to insidious forms of discrimination.

Oh, says Tom Sowell. Really? Shall we do something novel? Shall we take a look at the facts?