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  1. What Has Happened to Libertarians? https://townhall.com/news/dmitri-bolt/2026/09/23/what-has-happened-to-libertarians-n2683474
    Thomas Sowell, who studied under Friedman, chronicled his evolution from Marxism to free-market advocacy and spent decades explaining…
  2. Behold the New, New Deal Republicans https://townhall.com/news/dmitri-bolt/2026/09/10/common-good-conservatism-n2682785
    If we really want to defeat socialism, it’s time to brush up on the likes of Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell, Friedrich Hayek, and others…
  3. 25 Years and America Still Stands Tall https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/09/12/25-years-and-america-still-stands-tall-n2682860
    civilization has thrown up against it, and waits there always to reclaim that to which civilization has temporarily laid claim.”As Thomas … Sowell said, “The barbarians are not at the gates.…
  4. This Is Why Justice Clarence Thomas Got Emotional at a Recent Public Appearance https://townhall.com/news/amy-curtis/2026/08/20/justice-thomas-emotional-about-grandparents-n2681578
    Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is a man of few words. … Sowell and how Sowell influenced the Justice's thinking. … And he talks about other groups," Thomas said.…
  5. Frederic Bastiat on the Purpose of Law https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/09/06/frederick-bastiat-on-the-purpose-of-law-n2682526
    In other words, much in line with the thinking of Adam Smith, our Founding Fathers, the Austrian school of economics, Friedman, Sowell … Thomas Jefferson put it this way: “The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the…
  6. I Went to America’s Most Liberal College and It Made Me a Better Conservative https://townhall.com/news/dmitri-bolt/2026/08/21/should-conservatives-abandon-the-ivy-leagues-n2681680
    While I was taught primarily through a progressive lens, I spent a significant portion of my own time reading Milton Friedman and Thomas … Sowell; listening to Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and Charlie Kirk; and engaging seriously with debates between competing political…
  7. Education and Marxism https://townhall.com/columnists/jerrynewcombe/2026/08/20/education-and-marxism-n2681546
    As the great Thomas Sowell notes, “Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance…
  8. Vice President JD Vance Just Gave Republicans a Warning About Socialism https://townhall.com/news/dmitri-bolt/2026/08/14/vice-presid…vance-has-a-warning-about-socialism-for-republicans-n2681227
    But they will win by presenting a serious vision for an economy guided by the principles of people incluing Milton Friedman, Thomas … Sowell, and former President Ronald Reagan.…
  9. Handcuffing the Police https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffdavidson/2026/08/15/handcuffing-the-police-n2681215
    Professor Thomas Sowell wrote extensively about this in "Black Rednecks and White Liberals".…
  10. Catch and Release, Wisconsin Style https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/07/28/catch-and-release-wisconsin-style-n2680144
    Thomas Sowell has spent a career pointing out that a society which stops treating consequences as consequences shouldn't be surprised…
  11. Exploitation Isn't a Free Market Problem. It's a Government One. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2026/07/21/the-myth-of-exploitation-in-free-markets-n2679867
    students at George Mason University, and then walk them through why their initial instinct was wrong.pic.twitter.com/XFFpCZq3m6— Thomas … Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) July 18, 2026“Some say it's wrong to profit from the misfortune of others.…
  12. Equal Protection Wasn't Supposed to Be Negotiable https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/07/12/equal-protection-wasnt-supposed-to-be-negotiable-n2679251
    Thomas Sowell has spent decades warning against what he calls cosmic justice, the idea that government can and should engineer equal…
  13. Judge the Movement, Not the Mission Statement https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/07/10/judge-the-movement-not-the-mission-statement-n2679139
    Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman had been making the same argument for decades: government spending crowds out private choice and…
  14. 250 Years of American Audacity https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/07/03/250-years-of-american-audacity-n2678704
    Economist Thomas Sowell spent decades dismantling this conceit with evidence.…
  15. Your Castle, Their Plans: 21 Years After Kelo, the Government Still Holds the Key https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/06/22/your-c…years-after-kelo-the-government-still-holds-the-key-n2678051
    Justice Clarence Thomas was sharper in dissent: he warned that these takings fall hardest on the poor and politically weak — the very … Thomas Sowell would recognize it as a pattern — what he calls the vision of the anointed, the assumption that officials and their preferred…
  16. America Needs Fewer Performers and More Adults https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/06/22/america-needs-fewer-performers-and-more-adults-n2678064
    Thomas Sowell observed that the first lesson of economics is scarcity, and the first lesson of politics is to ignore that lesson.…
  17. The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations Has a Law Degree https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/06/20/the-soft-bigotry-of-low-expectations-has-a-law-degree-n2678018
    Thomas Sowell explained the failure mode decades ago: preferential placement puts students in programs they're not ready for, producing…
  18. The Algorithm Knows Where, Not Why https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/06/13/the-algorithm-knows-where-not-why-n2677631
    Thomas Sowell has been making this argument for 40 years.…
  19. Fight Night at 1600: The Outrage Industry Meets the Octagon https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/06/10/fight…ight-at-1600-the-outrage-industry-meets-the-octagon-n2677520
    Thomas Sowell spent a career explaining that outcomes track behavior, not grievance.…
  20. America’s $521 Billion Fraud Problem Is Finally Meeting Its Match https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/06/07/americ…billion-fraud-problem-is-finally-meeting-its-match-n2677265
    Thomas Sowell said it plainly in "A Conflict of Visions": “There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”…
  21. Let’s All Support AOC's Run for President https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffdavidson/2026/06/06/lets-all-support-aocs-run-for-president-n2677330
    She is a master of pontification and not much else.Dr Thomas Sowell, one of the most knowledgeable people you can encounter, and an…
  22. How News Aggregators Reinforce Political Ignorance https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2026/05/21/how-news-aggregators-reinforce-political-ignorance-n2676436
    This reminded me of a dinner conversation I once had with economist Thomas Sowell. … Given this consensus," I asked Sowell, "why does the minimum wage remain so popular even among some Republican politicians?…
  23. Bay Area Report on ICE Raids Is Peak Elite Cope https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/05/18/bay-area-report-on-ice-raids-is-peak-elite-cope-n2676219
    Thomas Sowell spent decades explaining it to anyone paying attention.…
  24. The Thing That Works https://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2026/05/13/the-thing-that-works-n2675983
    capitalism also lifted more people out of poverty, created more opportunities and improved more lives than any other system.Economist Thomas … Sowell said, "I don't ask, 'What is the cause of poverty?' … Sowell put it well," concludes Forbes. "What is the difference between people today and people in the Stone Age?…
  25. What 'Rights' Do They Want That They Don’t Already Have? https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/05/08/what-rights-do-they-want-that-they-dont-already-have-n2675663
    The great Thomas Sowell once wrote, "If you believe in equal rights, then what do ‘women's rights,’ ‘gay rights,’ etc., mean? … If homosexuals or woman or blacks must have their own special set of “rights,” then that means, as Sowell so correctly points out, … “Equal rights for all, special privileges for none,” Thomas Jefferson said, but that isn’t what the Democratic Party believes.Of course…