{"id":21961,"date":"2011-01-24T09:21:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T13:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21961"},"modified":"2011-01-24T09:21:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T13:21:31","slug":"interview-with-thomas-sowell-at-rwn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21961","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Thomas Sowell at RWN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of Thomas Sowell like I have been for the last two decades, there&#8217;s an interview that John Hawkins of <a href=\"http:\/\/rightwingnews.com\/2011\/01\/interviewing-thomas-sowell-on-basic-economics\/\">Right Wing News<\/a> did with him recently that you must read. Here&#8217;s a sample;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John Hawkins: Now, in recent years we started to hear more people calling to get rid of the Federal Reserve. Good idea, bad idea? What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Sowell: Good idea. <\/p>\n<p>John Hawkins: Good idea? What do you think we should replace it with? What do you think we should do? <\/p>\n<p>Thomas Sowell: Well it&#8217;s like when you remove a cancer what do you replace it with?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I&#8217;m linking stuff, our buddy Zombie sent the latest post by Zombie at Pajama Media entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/zombie\/2011\/01\/21\/human-rights-imperialism\/\">Human Rights Imperialism: Leftist Satire or Moral Collapse?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Guardian recently published a wicked satire of moral relativism, a Swiftian send-up entitled \u201cEnd human rights imperialism now\u201d with the classic sub-heading \u201cGroups such as Human Rights Watch have lost their way by imposing western, \u2018universal\u2019 standards on developing countries.\u201d Brilliant! Hahahahaha! I didn\u2019t know the Guardian had branched out into humor.<\/p>\n<p>But about five minutes after my laughter subsided, a horrible suspicion dawned on me: Could it be that the author was serious?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two good posts from two great blogger friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of Thomas Sowell like I have been for the last two decades, &hellip; <a title=\"Interview with Thomas Sowell at RWN\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21961\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interview with Thomas Sowell at RWN<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers-and-stuff","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}