ThomasSowell Conservative Review called his retirement a "sad day" for conservatives:
A sad day for conservatives: ThomasSowell … of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." - ThomasSowell — Freedom ???? … —ThomasSowell — Janie Johnson (@jjauthor) December 27, 2016…
ThomasSowell has officially penned his last column and is saying farewell.
“Even the best things come to an end. … Sowell is the most-read conservative columnist of all time. … Sowell.…
Even the best things come to an end. After enjoying a quarter of a century of writing this column for Creators Syndicate, I have decided to stop. Age 86 is well past the usual retirement age, so the question is not why I am quitting, but why I kept at...
Any honest man, looking back on a very long life, must admit -- even if only to himself -- being a relic of a bygone era. Having lived long enough to have seen both "the greatest generation" that fought World War II and the gratingest generation that we see all...
Those who have been marveling at Donald Trump's political showmanship were given a reminder of who is the top showman of them all, when President Barack Obama went on television to make a pitch for his unilateral actions to restrict gun sales and make a more general case for tighter...
After months of watching all sorts of political polls, we are finally just a few weeks away from actually beginning to see some voting in primary elections. Polls let people vent their emotions. But elections are held to actually accomplish something. The big question is whether the voters...
In recent years, a small but growing number of people have advocated a convention of states to propose amendments to the Constitution of the United States. The reaction to the proposal has been hostile, out of all proportion to either the originality or the danger of such a convention....
Of all the many things said about Donald Trump, what was said by Roger Ailes, head of the Fox News Channel, said it all in just two words: "Grow up!" It is amazing how many people have been oblivious to this middle-aged man's spoiled brat behavior, his childish...
conservative voters reluctantly supported not because those candidates were strong advocates for conservative principles, but -- to quote Thomas … Sowell -- "better a third-rate fireman than a first-rate arsonist."…
The latest tempest in a teapot controversy is over a lack of black nominees for this year's Academy Awards in Hollywood. The assumption seems to be that different groups would be proportionally represented if somebody were not doing somebody else wrong. That assumption carries great weight in...
ThomasSowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. … To find out more about ThomasSowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate…
Those of us who like to believe that human beings are rational can sometimes have a hard time trying to explain what is going on in politics. It is still a puzzle to me how millions of patriotic Americans could have voted in 2008 for a man who for 20...
During this election year, we are destined to hear many words that are toxic in the way they misrepresent reality and substitute fantasies that can win votes. One of these words is "entitlement." To hear some politicians tell it, we are all entitled to all sorts of things,...
Senator Ted Cruz's upset victory against Donald Trump has robbed "The Donald" of his stock answer to any criticism from rivals-- that he is winning and his critics are losers. Now that he has lost, Mr. Trump may finally have to try to come up with some substantive arguments...
Random thoughts on the passing scene: Will this November's presidential election come down to a choice between a felon and a pied piper? People who call Barack Obama a lame duck president seem not to have noticed that he is exercising more power than ever, and has...
ThomasSowell, Larry Elder, Jason Riley, I and other black libertarians/conservatives have been saying for decades. … Tweeting those Sowell quotations represents the highest order of blasphemy in the eyes of leftists. … ThomasSowell is one of the nation's most distinguished and accomplished scholars alive today.)…
In this era when there has been more information available to more people than at any time in the past, it is also true that there has been more misinformation from more different sources than ever. We are not talking about differences of opinion or inadequate verification, but about statements...
Seventy-one years ago this month -- in January 1948 -- a black, 17-year-old high school dropout left home. The last grade he had completed was the 9th grade. He had no skills, little experience, and not a lot of maturity. Yet he was able to find jobs to support himself,...
In a column written several years before Kaepernick first took the knee, economist ThomasSowell wrote a review of Heather Mac Donald … Sowell used a facetious analogy that demonstrated how racial profiling statistics are so easily manipulated: Since blacks are only … Since the majority of NBA players are black, Sowell wrote, the 11 percent statistic means nothing.…
