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  1. 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.…
  2. 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…
  3. 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…
  4. 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…
  5. 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.…
  6. 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…
  7. 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.…
  8. 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…
  9. 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.…
  10. 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.…
  11. 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…
  12. 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.”…
  13. 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?…
  14. 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.…
  15. 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?…
  16. 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…
  17. The Race-Obsessed Left Complains When the Supreme Court Issues a Colorblind Ruling https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2026/05/07/the-ra…s-when-the-supreme-court-issues-a-colorblind-ruling-n2675653
    Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a concurring opinion, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, in the recent case that … As Thomas Sowell says, "When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination."…
  18. Counties, Not Capitals: The NPVIC Threat and the Case for a Real Electoral Reset https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/05/03/counti…pvic-threat-and-the-case-for-a-real-electoral-reset-n2675396
    As Thomas Sowell has argued across decades of scholarship, the structural safeguards against institutional capture are not relics —…
  19. The Brilliant 'Reasoning' of the Left https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/02/12/the-brilliant-reasoning-of-the-left-n2671178
     I suggest that Cranston ask Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Clarence Thomas, Ben Carson, Thomas Sowell, and millions of other comfortably…
  20. TrumpRx Triggers TDS in Elizabeth Warren https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2026/02/08/trumprx-triggers-tds-in-elizabeth-warren-n2670931
    I mean it’s incredible, it’s stupendous, it’s like the most incredible program ever.”pic.twitter.com/YfHXl0Iwbx— Thomas Sowell Quotes…
  21. What a MAGA Leftist Said on CNN Last Night Caused the Panel to Totally Melt Down https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/02/04/what-a-ma…nn-last-night-caused-the-panel-to-totally-melt-down-n2670647
    …" *Erupts*Batya: "He has the most multiracial coalition that the Republican Party has ever had.pic.twitter.com/0y8qiZPTsH— Thomas … Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) October 21, 2025Love to hear a multi-millionaire telling Americans to stay home, not go to work, make…
  22. Democrats Don't Understand 'Basic Economics' https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2026/01/30/democrats-dont-understand-basic-economics-n2670420
    an AI-generated image showing President Trump refusing a copy of "Basic Economics," a book by legendary conservative economist Thomas …  The account was quick to try and save face, posting only an hour later, "this is a JOKE, it does not mean we endorse Thomas Sowell … Author's Note: this is a JOKE, it does not mean we endorse Thomas Sowell— Ways and Means Democrats (@WaysMeansCmte) January 29, 2026Conservatives…
  23. Chicago's Brandon Johnson Say's There's No Evidence a Corporate Head Tax Is a Job Killer https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/12/14/sun-brandon-johnson-head-tax-n2667825
    .— NOfP-X (@NOfPPlus) December 12, 2025Johnson has not.I wonder if you would spontaneously combust if you read some Thomas Sowell. … December 12, 2025Brandon Johnson is on record saying that being fiscally responsible is akin to slavery, so he'd probably accuse Sowell…
  24. Introducing the AI Civil Rights Act: Solving Imaginary Problems With Terrible Solutions https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2025/12/11/the-ai-civil-rights-act-n2667744
    Pressley should familiarize herself with the work of Hoover Institute fellow Thomas Sowell, the author of "Discrimination and Disparity…
  25. Democrats Fuel Racial Strife to Get Votes https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffdavidson/2025/12/06/democrats-racists-who-fuel-racial-strife-to-get-votes-n2667468
    Jones, Leo Terrell, Thomas Sowell, Stephen A. … Smith, Shelby Steele, Condoleezza Rice, Allen West, Armstrong Williams, Jason Whitlock, Justice Clarence Thomas, Senator Tim Scott,…