Carolina QuotesPeter Robinson: Our intellectual-in-chief, Barack Obama, got his BA from Columbia, his JD from Harvard, he taught for a number of years at the University of Chicago Law School. May I suppose that Tom Sowell is duly impressed? Thomas Sowell: [laughing] Oh, yeah! You might say the road to hell is paved with Ivy League degrees!
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Uncommon Knowledge - Thomas Sowell on the second edition of Intellectuals and Society (37:03), May 8, 2012
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