Thomas Sowell on Noam Chomsky, Cornell West and Other Intellectuals

Thomas Sowell shows how intellectuals misguded the public in the past and how they're still doing it in the present.

Sowell also explains why Intellectuals feel the need to step into areas where they don't have enough expertise in.

0:00 intro
0:10 what is an intellectual?
0:58 why Intellectuals tend to step outside
their specialty
3:06 why intellectuals get more public
attention now than ever
4:18 how the media and schools spread the
ideas of intellectuals
4:50 Intellectuals' role during World War 2
5:58 Intellectuals' role during the Vietnam
War
7:14 Progressive Racism in the 1920s
9:20 Why intellectuals promote victimism
13:48 why intellectuals like democratic
socialism
15:35 why intellectuals avoid the testing of
their ideas
17:04 are intellectuals gaining more and
more influence in our society?