thomas sowell and now victor davis hanson.e outstanding minds in america today. victor davis hanson you heard your friend and former colleague dr. thomas sowell he paints his picture about the nation for it was your general take of what he has to say? >> 's reviews whole body of work for 50 years and has applied it to the woke movement. he has come up with a produces synced explanation of the gym we are in. he is saying the attraction or the seduction is an age old play but in this particular moment we have given into it. he is kind of channeling as he escorted before alex de tocqueville most people would rather be equal and poor than a better often have some people better off than them. politicians cater to that desire and exploit it. he spent his entire life trying to show us that inequality is a very complex issue. sometimes it's important sometimes as a is a less import. sometimes it's due to race there so many multiples and factors the idea a government would need the power to make a sequel on the backside always result i

former police officer turned serial killer anthony sowell.l causes at san quentin state prison. the 79 year-old was convicted and sentenced to death back in 1986. for the brutal shooting and beating murders of 5 women and a man during a six-month period in 1983, the california department of corrections says he died on friday. sully served on the millbrae police force from 1967. to 1974. >> a former attorney for the city of santa clara has filed a lawsuit claiming the city fired him over a hush agreement with the owners of the san francisco forty-niners brian doyle says he was fired in retaliation for whistleblowing in the forty-niners 5 scandal. that's where 5 city council members are accused of having an ethical relationships with management of the forty-niners. the lawsuit says that doyle was fired in a deal to make team friendly decisions in exchange for millions of dollars in campaign support for the council members. doyle says this decision came after he refused to participate in a closed session meeting over legal concerns during his em

said, calling him all sorts of names and everything when, in fact, really good economists like tom sowelling on what happened after slavery was finished, after civil war, the steady gains that were made by blacks in the united states after that. and hen -- then after lbj's expansion of welfare, the steady decline of particularly the family which is to important in the lives of african-americans and everybody. and that decline was with specifically linked to lbj's so-called great society. >> a lot of these programs, unfortunately, lead to fatherlessness, and i'm fortunate enough to have a mother and a father. not every black kid's got that. 70% of black kids are born into single family homes, and it's no fault of the single moms or dads trying to raise the kids without the opposite parent there, but it makes the incline that much steeper. you look at under president trump, we had the lowest black unemployment ever, the lowest black poverty ever, and that's what happens when you cut taxes, deregulate and let the market expand. it lifts all boats as opposed to the other model which is basica

also have strong what i would call black nationalist voice in the way of frederick douglass, thomas sowell some martin luther king, and even some malcolm x. and i didn't want to ask that. i wanted to put it down and have it be my own independent kind of review of his opinions and same thing about the people. the title people's justice comes not only because he's honoring the will of the people when he honors the words of the law. but because of often he cares about notes for the very people in case. and i'm curious if he intends to do that or it's just a product of his own work or it's something he's doing without thinking about. and i didn't get to ask him those. but yes, i hope to someday ask him all those questions. i hope get that chance to judge to parts been a great pleasure speaking with i'd encourage listeners to pick up a copy of the book no matter what you think about justice thomas or originalism the people's justice think has something to say for both supporters. and critics of of this line of thought and it's told in a really gripping, engaging way. thank you, judge pa, for yo

, there's right wing sort of there's a right wing sort of philosopher and economist called thomas sowellknow if you've heard of him, american guy. and he says, parts of says, you know, in many parts of america, the 20th century, america, in the 20th century, the places to live are the safest places to live are where organised crime took over because absolutely where organised crime took over because streets absolutely where organised crime took over because streets clean. solutely where organised crime took over because streets clean. you:ely where organised crime took over because streets clean. you know keep the streets clean. you know , get you know, , and you wouldn't get you know, they fulfilled a role. >> and there was a vacuum in this case. these retailers obviously are paying their taxes, but now they're going to pay taxes, but now they're going to pay the police and i hope they are not to going be as human as french gendarmerie because they might run cctv pictures and make no arrest. >> i mean, it's a good question whether the shoplifting reflects the cost of living prices or i

thomas sowell, james o wilson, justice scalia and britain's sir roger scruton , who was a roger scrutong scholar here for several years . now i'm here in several years. now i'm here in america to talk about a critical and shared global challenge large, uncontrolled and illegal migration. >> it's an exhausting social challenge for the political and cultural institutions of the west , just as it's a basic rule west, just as it's a basic rule of history that nations which cannot defend their borders will not long survive . not long survive. >> and it is a basic rule of polity ethics that political systems which cannot control their borders, will not maintain their borders, will not maintain the consent of the people , and the consent of the people, and thus not long endure. >> you do not have to be a clairvoyant to see how might this all unfold . to understand this all unfold. to understand the future, cast your mind back a couple of weeks and a few thousand miles southeast of here to the tiny italian island of lampedusa population then 6000 lampedusa, where in a 24 hour period, beginning