sowell: no. i think if you put a white woman from georgia in the 1950s in of a black unit, that's what you would expect to happen. mr. lamb: talking about your that you wrote at least in your columns for -- was services? mr. sowell: creative syndicate. mr. lamb: syndicate. first column you wrote 30 years ago, at the end column i ever st wrote, 39 years ago, was titled doom.rofits of this was long before al gore made millions of dollars romoting global warming hysteria, back in 1970, the prevailing hysteria was the ice age. a new i tried to find that column on the internet. it's not there that i could find. is it available for any of us to read? mr. sowell: yes. published in the old "washington star" which as you know went out of business years ago, which i hope was not result of my column. and 's a book called "pink brown people" which is the first collection of my column that was published by the hoofer back in the early 1980s, and it's in there. print, i t's still in don't know. mr. lamb: when

sowell.here is a lot to read if people are interested in reading a lot of your work. we thank you very much for joining us. thomas: thank you for having me. ♪ announcer: for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at qanda.org. programs are also available as c-span podcasts. >> if you enjoyed this week's "q&a" interview, here are some other programs you might like. our 2005 interview with mr. sowell. george mason university economics professor walter williams talking about his life and libertarian views. and conservative radio talk show host mark levin. you can watch these anytime or search our entire video library at c-span.org. >> c-span's "washington journal," live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up monday morning, washington examiner white house correspondent and the hills reporter talk about the failed health care bill. be sure to watch "washington journal," monday morning. join the discussion. >> next, british prime ministe

. >> sunday night on q & a, a conversation with thomas sowell about a column he wrote in last 25 years. >> i never felt i had to avoid seeing what people with different views thought. so during all my years, i read everything across the political spectrum. i have to this day a book that i first read back when i was undergraduate at harvard, and i treasure that book. i could tell even then. i understood why there are different views. and it is not just that it's just a question of being on the side of the angels against the forces of evil. i think that the new administration in washington has very good people, better than i think most recent administrations have had in the top division. the only question is that we won't know until a lot more time has passed. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q & a. >> on wednesday, labor and mentions committee held a confirmation hearing for president trump's labor secretary nominee, alexander acosta. this is just under three hours.

. >> sunday night on "q&a," a conversation with tomasello -- thomas sowell, who recently retired from the column he wrote for 25 years. >> unlike the left, i never felt i had to avoid being what people with different views thought. so during all of my years as a marxist, i read everything across the political spectrum. onave to this day a book burke i first read when i was an undergraduate at harvard. i treasure that book. i could tell even then. i understood that there were reasons why people have different views. it is not just a question of being on the side of the angels against the forces of evil. i think the new administration in washington has some very good people, better than most recent administrations have had. the only question is if the president listens to them, and that we will not know until more time has passed. sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q&a." announcer: conceding that there were not enough votes for passage, house speaker paul ryan pulled the republican health care replacement bill minutes before a vote was to take place. we will have reaction in a fe

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thomas sowell, you wrote this at the end of 2016.ge 86 is well past the usual retirement age, so the question is not why i am quitting, but why i kept at it so long. why did you? thomas: why do they keep at it so long? there were a lot of things happening different from the way in most of the media. i enjoyed doing it, i enjoyed hearing back from people. i was sorry i never had a chance to reply to them all. -- i'm just going to ask you why you put this in the column and you can expand on it if you would like. havewn family did not electricity or running water in my childhood, which was not unusual for blacks in the south in those days." what you member about those days? remember a lot because i did not leave the south until i was a most nine years old. i spent a fair amount of time down there. most of those places, there was not a lot of hot running water. we had cold water. many other blacks in those days did not have, by the way. sort of saying where i came from. >> you moved to harlem. what was that like? thomas: i lived with the

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sowell. ministerh prime theresa may took questions this week on school funding, cuts to the national health service and reparations to officially withdraw from the european union. place hours took before the terror attack outside parliament that claimed the lives of four people. after this, we will have the prime minister's statement on that attack. this is 45 minutes. with because they are located in one single place. >> order. he questions to the prime minister. john mann. the prime minister. >> thank you, mr. speaker. and i would like to press my condolences family and colleagues of former deputy minister of northern ireland john mcginnis. we do not justify the path he took in earlier part of his life and never should forget that nor the victims of terrorism. however as my noble friend lord trimble sought out yesterday he played indispensable role bringing republican movement from violence to peaceful and democratic means and building a better northern ireland. mr. speaker this morning i h

thomas sowell, you wrote this at the end of 2016, age 86 is well past the usual retirement age.stion is why i kept at it so long. why did you? >> there's a lot of things i thought should be explained in a different way. i enjoyed doing it and hearing back from people. i have your last column. >> we had cold water which many other black families do not have. it says were a came from. >> you moved to harlem. >> i live with family and some members who were in new york but fortunately, they ran into a boy he named eddie who was quite unusual for those days. he came from a highly educated family was obviously very cultured. before i ever arrived in new york, they had decided this was someone i needed to meet. if this could help me in life. he could tell me things that they did not have the education to tell me. at the time, i myself by any means was not looking that way, but thank heavens, others were. >> where was eddie today and what did he do in his life. >> ironically, i received a card from him on my birthday. he's a year older than i am. he went on to become one of the deans of

thank you for the great questions. [ applause ] >>> sunday night on q & a, a conversation with thomas sowell who recently retired from the syndicated column he wrote for the last 25 years. >> fortunately, unlike today's left, i never felt that i had to avoid seeing what people with different views thought. during all of my xwroo yeayears marxist i read everything across the political spectrum. i have to this day a book i first read back when i was an undergraduate at harvard and i treasure that book. i can tell even then, so i understood there were reasons why people have different views as i see today. it's not just that -- it's not just a question of being on the side of the angels against the forces of evil. i think the new administration in washington has some very good people, better than i think most recent administrations have had in the top positions. the only question is whether the president listens to them. that, we won't know until a lot more time has passed. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q & a. >> sunday night on after words, university of pennsylvania professor li

sunday night on "q&a," a conversation with thomas sowel l. >> unlike today's left, i never felt that i had to avoid speaking with people with different views or thought. during all of my years as a boss, i have read everything across the political spectrum. i have a book i first read when i was an undergraduate at harvard. i treasure that book. i could tell you even then. i understood there were reasons why people have different views. it is not just a question of being on the side of the angels against the forces of evil. i think of the new administration in washington have some very good people. better than i think most recent of demonstrations have had in the top positions to the only question is whether the president listens to them. that we will not know until a lot more time has passed. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q&a." ♪ >> c-span. where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. sunday night on "afterwards," university of penns

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