Common Sense in a Senseless World
Not an interview, the whole story. Jason Riley’s film traces the road from Harlem to the front rank of American thought. Start here if you are new to the man.
- Interviewer
- Jason Riley
- Program
- Free To Choose
- Topics
- His Life
Quotes from this interview
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“The vision of the left, and many conservatives underestimate this, is really a more attractive vision in itself. The only reason for not believing in it is that it doesn't work. If the world were the way the left conceives it to be, it would be a better world than the way the right conceives it to be. It just happens that the world is not that way.”
“The course of history is determined by what people do with their opportunities.”
“Many people are trying to insulate young people from adversity, insulate them from the things that give them strength.”
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